It is not what you leave to your children that matters, but what you leave in them.

Beauty is not who you are on the outside, it is the wisdom and time you gave away to save another struggling soul, like you.

I existed on my own terms. I was different my entire life. Some called me divergent, wild, crazy, unpredictable and unconformed—an apostate to the rules of the majority. I called myself God’s creation and found purpose in the madness. When that day came, I didn’t allow other people to dictate how I should feel or...

Activism begins with you, Democracy begins with you, get out there, get active! Tag, you’re it

Sometimes, people call my way of speaking ranting. Why are you always ranting and screaming, they ask. But here’s the thing…the reason why I rant is because I am a voice for many women that cannot speak out to heads of state, UN officials, and those that influence systems of oppression. And so I rant....

Any war that requires the suspension of reason as a necessity for support is a bad war.

Essential acts to master for self realisation;Master the act of learning.Master the act of writing.Master the act of reading.

The Lone Star of Africa Land of the free, on your beach and sacred forests loves flourished. You, Liberia, you my love to echo, the scream of freedom, holding tight and will never let go. O beautiful land, The Lone star for decades has survived wars and tribalism the elders who keep the ancestral treasures...

New concepts should be introduced by the power of imagery.

I detect the activist returning with a vengence.

For a man who makes his salvation perfect through suffering, is more of a saint and a loving hero of nature.

somebody” that will remove the obstacles they encountered out of the pathway for others.

The goal for most people should not be to feel better, but to get better at feeling.

Real women fight for something, other than their own emotions.

I want to be an activist professor.

I’m all for fighting tyranny and oppression.

There comes a time in your life when you can no longer put off choosing. You have to choose one path or the other. You can live safe and be protected by people just like you, or you can stand up and be a leader for what is right. Always, remember this: People never remember...

In order to master compassion, you have to spend time getting to know monsters. When you can do that you will see that there are no monsters, only people that acted like monsters because no one gave them the time or compassion to hear their story.

The problem will never be diversity, the challenging of tradition or the one person that questions the way life should be. The person that shows the world that this is wrong, there is a perspective you didn’t consider, this is worth fighting for and being different is a blessing, will always be the solution for...

If you can’t tell from my rap lyrics already, yes I am a feminist. And when I’m saying “hoe” or “bitch” I am actually referring to men. …That sounded bad, in someway. But at the end of the day, I’m sick of rappers using “bitches” and “hoes” as terms towards women. Feminists are NOT a...

All men are created equal. Now matter how hard they try, they can never erase those words. That is what America is about.

Words are fossilized butterfly wings,pretty to look at sometimes,but only good for Museums.I want to miserably burn down the Museums.

During the flames of controversy, opinions, mass disputes, conflict, and world news, sometimes the most precious, refreshing, peaceful words to hear amidst all the chaos are simply and humbly ‘I don’t know.

I was an activist long before I even entertained the possibility of being an actor.

Strength of character comes from being hit by stray verbal stones, while protecting discarded ciphers in the snow.

Before you call yourself a Christian, Buddhist, Muslim, Hindu or any other theology, learn to be human first.

The headlines are never in the news! And so, what I am saying is the news is never on the headlines

If your not annoying somebody, you’re not alive.

There are horrible events going on all over the world. Human beings are really fucking up. Poets, we can’t just write poems. We have to put poems into action.

The notion that a radical is one who hates his country is naïve and usually idiotic. He is, more likely, one who likes his country more than the rest of us, and is thus more disturbed than the rest of us when he sees it debauched. He is not a bad citizen turning to crime;...

To make peace is not a passive endeavor, but rather an activist mindset that works toward the end of conflict. In our world, it is not the soldier but the activist who calls for peace.

I’m an artist, I’m not an activist.

I know that you cannot live on hope alone, but without it, life is not worth living. And you…And you…And you…Gotta give em hope.

The 1970s-80s social movement called U.S. third world feminism functioned as a central locus of possibility, an insurgent social movement that shattered the construction of any one ideology as the single most correct site where truth can be represented. Indeed, without making this kind of metamove, any ‘liberation’ or social movement eventually becomes destined to...

If you join the rat race — you’re in the race of rats.