I hate it when the very folks who should be listening to rap music are attacking it so hard they miss the point. The point is that children and the neighborhoods—the whole country—are drowning in violence.

I just called to say I love you / I just called to say how much I care / I just called to say I love you / And I mean it from the bottom of my heart

You took me riding in your rocket gave me a star.

Isn't she pretty / Truly the angel's best / Boy, I'm so happy / We have been heaven blessed / I can't believe what God has done / Through us he's given life to one / But isn't she lovely made from love.

Mama was my greatest teacher, a teacher of compassion, love, and fearlessness. If love is sweet as a flower, then my mother is that sweet flower of love.

Very superstitious, writings on the wall, very superstitious, ladders 'bout to fall, Thirteen month old baby, broke the lookin' glass, seven years of bad luck, the good things in your past.

I've had threats.

Of course I read Braille, yes.

People can misconstrue closeness for love.

I feel thankful to God, first and foremost, allowing me to enjoy this ‘smell the roses’ kind of thing.