Listen to yourself and in that quietude you might hear the voice of God.
It's hard to get fired from the government. You have to, like, kill people.
I'm a black, gay woman. I think the only way to make the GOP hate me more is if I sent them a video of me rolling around on a pile of welfare checks.
Seriously, I don't need a gun. I'm easily annoyed. I would shoot people in my house that I invited over.
When life gives you lemons don't make lemonade, make pink lemonade. Be unique.
If you feel like there's something out there that you're supposed to be doing, if you have a passion for it, then stop wishing and just do it.
These CEOs, man. . . If you're that ruthless, you're a scary dude. I tell you, now when I walk past a little gang banger, I don't even blink. But if I see a white dude with a Wall Street Journal, I haul ass. Before I walk past the Arthur Andersen building, I cut through the projects. If you cut through the projects, you may just lose what you have on you that day. I ain't never been mugged of my whole future.
Took an oath, I'ma stick it out to the end.
If the angels were capable of envy, they would envy us for two things: one is the receiving of Holy Communion, and the other is suffering.
As I have continued to make music and progress as an artist, I think I am steadily getting better at expanding my lyrical content and defining who I am as an artist.
I was brought up to believe in free will. Although I came to doubt all revelation, I can never accept the idea that the Universe is a physical or chemical accident, a result of blind evolution. Even though I learned to recognize the lies, the clichés and the idolatries of the human mind, I still cling to some truths which I think all of us might accept some day.