shifts uneasily from fear to fear,
till he ends by never starting

the Nothing about them swallows them up: their
restlessness of spirit leads straight to a negation of life--to
perversion, madness, suicide--the death of the individual, in short.

like the Virgin who does indeed tread the serpent underfoot--her
face serene and confident meanwhile--but who nevertheless has the
monster under her body and in contact with her flesh!
-Benedetto Croce


As a philosopher, if I were
speaking to a purely philosophic audience I should say that I ought to
describe myself as an Agnostic, because I do not think that there is a
conclusive argument by which one prove that there is not a God.
On the other hand, if I am to convey the right impression to the ordinary
man in the street I think I ought to say that I am an Atheist, because
when I say that I cannot prove that there is not a God, I ought to add
equally that I cannot prove that there are not the Homeric gods.
-Bertrand Russell

• We all gon' die, we bleed through similar veins.
  

• Steady study your lessons and keep the crowd guessin'!

• I'd rather die than be a slave.
  Slaves come as dope dealers, some come as addicts.

• But through whatever you see,
  through all the rain and the pain,
  you gotta keep your sense of humor.

• If you believe then you can achieve
  Just look at me
  Against all odds, though life is hard we carry on
  Livin' in the projects, broke with no lights on
  To all the seeds that follow me
  protect your essence
  Born with less, but you still precious

• Don't let'em make you worry 
  keep swingin' at these suckas till you buried.

• On the whole, I don't have any friends. Friends come and go; I've lost my trust factor. I believe I have people who think they're my friend. And I believe that there are people probably in their heart who are friends toward me or are friends to me. But they're not my friends, because what I learned is that fear is stronger than love. So soon as somebody scaries comes along, they won't be my friend anymore. I learned that on the floor at Times Square-so I don't have friends, I have family.

• Mama told me they're be days like this
  But I'm pissed cause it stays like this
  

• Unlock my brain, break tha chains of your misery

• Say no to drugs but the governments' keep it
  Running through our community, killing the unity

• But its wrong to keeping someone from learning something
  So get up, its time to start nation building
  I'm fed up, we gotta start teaching children
  That they can be all that they wanna to be
  There's much more to life than just poverty

• Conquer the enemy on with education

• Know thy self, teach what we been through

• I am what you made me
  The hate and evil that you gave me

• Never surrender, it's all about the faith you got don't ever stop, just push it til you hit the top and if you drop, at least you know you gave your all be true to you, and that way you can never fall.

• You got to find a way to survive cause they win when your soul dies.

• Some of us kill, but still, most of us can change.

• To me, I feel that my game is strong. I feel as thought I'm a shining prince, just like Malcolm, and I feel that all of us are shining princes, and if we live like princes, then whatever we want can be ours. Anything.

• And now i'm like a major threat, 'Cause I remind you of the things you were made to forget.

• ... be true to you, believe that there is no one bigger