• "When a boy writes off the world it's done in sloppy misspelled words. When a girl writes off the world it's done in cursive."

Sage Francis/Non Prophets - The Cure

• 1-2-3 thats the speed of the seed. A-B-C, thats the speed of the need. You can dream a little dream or you can live a little dream. I'd rather live it cause dreamers always chase, but never get it."

Aesop Rock - No Regrets

• "Life's not a bitch. Life is a beautiful woman. You only call her a bitch cause she wouldn't let you get that pussy. Maybe she didn't feel ya'll shared any similar interests. Maybe your just the asshole who couldn't sweet talk the princess."

Aesop Rock - Daylight

• "I found the spot where truth echoes and know each beauty mark by

heart. But I just can't keep her still enough to render perfect art. 'Cause the truth is ever changing and although she loves my touch, I've had my way, but I when I pray, she kisses back too much. And it's hard to feel real gangster when you're always getting kissed. But you jump at every pucker, 'cause your fear of getting dissed. I try not to fight the parts of me that want to kiss her back. Egos should be illegal. Mine just don't know how to act. He tells me I don't need her. I should walk this path alone. She's make believe. She's up my sleeve. I'd do better with a clone. But could it be? It seems to me that she's my other half. My inner-tarzan monkey girl, who's raised mainly by giraffes. And besides she makes me laugh. 'Cause deep down I think she's stupid. But deeper down, I'm just a clown starting bar room brawls with cupid, like, "Fuck that naked baby angel, dawg, yo! And gimme 2 more buttery nipples". And God just re-invents herself as ice-cubes in my ripple. " Saul Williams - Surrender (A Second To Think)

• "We proceeded on a country road

His mother's eyes withered swoll Her child was never comin home Said a prayer for his soul As the coffin had closed, committed to the earth below First seed she would sew, would be a tree never grown Shade that was never known Who controls the Terrordome, the member hearts made of stone Who love only what they own" Mos Def - A Tree Never Grown

• "your back curves like a creeping vine

with the answers in the fluid in the stem of the spine in the black-coffee bowl of your eye why do you overestimate the size of the lie?

i’ve seen the dangers of your rising sign but i swear i’d like to drink the fuel straight from your lighter it’s all inside the wrist, it’s all inside the way you time it i resent the way you make me like myself" Mike Doughty

• "I'm sippin wishing well water imported from Pluto

That's why my eyes is glassy, so ain't got to ask me The interplanetary Illuminati move your body I trekked the stars first, so fuck Kirk and Scotty I threw basement parties on the Mothership Now I'm on planet Earth on some other shit Many 'habitants of this world be strivin and strugglin Tryin to eat food and keep the rights to they publishing, huh Ghetto red hot, man that shit is like bubblin Can't get no peace cause the Beast keep troubling Youth, they oppose and the blows they be doubling Nike heads is trife and the shots, they be thundering Ways and customs don't make any sense They be givin me stress and they test my maintenance Use the sand and the Ummah as my sustenance No, this style will never lack, melanin's my evidence" Mos Def

• "Yo puttin' a maximum effort towards minimum wage

It bring the stillest waters up to a simmering rage And I don't feel bad about it My boss slippin' steady Try-na treat a brother any old typical way He-he-hey that ain't the way I'm living today Give me my last week check and let me bounce up and skate That's when she said "I ain't giving you not one thin dime" So she made me wanna switch into my criminal mind She sittin' back in her office countin' major dough And don't wanna give a young man the pay she owe As soon as I got on the horn and called Macy yo "Like yo this crazy ho try-na play me low" Macy beemed on the scene with both hands on deck Like respect your debt or protect your neck But old chick got bold and said what you gon' do Macy reached for the tool made a holla like Ja Rule And I was like "Oh shit! Relax don't flip" But ol' chick got slick Macy let off a whole clip Then she said "You crazy, you know labor ain't free" Snatched the cash and made a dash like O.J. and A.C. and we out" Mos Def from I've Committed Murder Remix

• "we knew from the start that

things fall apart, intentions shatter she like that shit don't matter when I get home get at her through letter, phone, whatever let's link, let's get together shit you think not, think the Thought went home and forgot time passed, we back in philly now she up in my spa tellin me the things I'm tellin her is makin her hot startin buildin with her constantly round the clock now she in my world like hip-hop" The Roots - You Got Me