"When the power of love overcomes the love of power the world will know peace."-Jimi Hendrix

"It makes me so sad. The truth is that both Chris Brown and Rihanna, if I were your friend. I would call you up and say, 'Give it some time. Get yourself counseling. Take care of yourself. Heal yourself first, and also love doesn't hurt. I've been saying this to women for years, 'Love doesn't hurt, and if a man hits you once, he will hit you again.'"

-OPRAH

"It's really about control, my body, my mind. Who was going to own it? Them? Or me? I'm not a one-man woman. Bottom line. "

-Tracy Camilla Johns as "Nola Darling" in She's Gotta Have It

"Pick the day. Enjoy it - to the hilt. The day as it comes. People as they come... The past, I think, has helped me appreciate the present - and I don't want to spoil any of it by fretting about the future.” -Audrey Hepburn

"50 look at me now/singing on the ground/with my pink shirt on/ Does this look gay to you?/ Well I don't know what else to say to you/ Look at me now..."

Kanye West, Vh-1 Storytellers during "Heartless" performance

"There's a difference between me and somebody like Kanye. He plans for it. I never do. It just happens. While I'm left feeling lucky, he's left feelig like an architect."

-Pharrell, March '09 Issue of Nylon Guys

April 29, 1899 – May 24, 1974



"Art is Dangerous. it is one of the attractions: when it ceases to be dangerous you don't want it."

-Duke Ellington, Jazz Composer/Pianist

"Don't be afraid to stand on a mountain of no's, for one yes."

-B.Smith(Entrepreneur)at the 2009 BET Honors

"You Win some/You lose some/Damn/They lost a brother/ They mother lost a son/Fuck, why my nigga couldn't stay in NY?..."
-NOTORIOUS B.I.G, "Miss You"

"Everybody's a goddamn freak. We just have a different perception of what being a lady is."

-Sarah Rosete, Electrik Red on the group being
unapologetic for their sexuality in this month's
VIBE (FEB. '09)

"The Fourth grade was epic."
-Mos Def's daughter


Background: "I took my daughter to Paris and we were at the bottom of the Eiffel Tower and she said that the fourth grade was epic." -Mos Def at Highline last night. He talks of his daughter and proves that kids really do say the darndest things, before he spits his verse.....


"For me, the fifth grade was epic."
-Mos