Hip-hop is still cool at a party. But to me hip-hop has never been strictly a party it is also there to elevate consciousness.

I don't write for any group. I write to bring about a change in consciousness.

We have to raise the consciousness the only way poets can change the world is to raise the consciousness of the general populace.

Racism has been for everyone like a horrible tragic car crash and we've all been heavily sedated from it. If we don't come into consciousness of this tragedy there's going to be a violent awakening we don't want. The question is can we wake up?

It is ironic that the one thing that all religions recognize as separating us from our creator our very self-consciousness is also the one thing that divides us from our fellow creatures. It was a bitter birthday present from evolution.

Do not look for approval except for the consciousness of doing your best.

It seems like the chaos of this world is accelerating but so is the beauty in the consciousness of more and more people.

Only when inspired to go beyond consciousness by some extraordinary insight does beauty manifest unexpectedly.

Sex and beauty are inseparable like life and consciousness. And the intelligence which goes with sex and beauty and arises out of sex and beauty is intuition.

When a woman puts on a heel she has a different posture a different attitude. She really stands up and has a consciousness of her body.

Black Consciousness is an attitude of the mind and a way of life the most positive call to emanate from the black world for a long time.

A metaphysical tour de force of untethered meaning and involuting interlocking contrapuntal rhythms 'The Clock' is more than a movie or even a work of art. It is so strange and other-ish that it becomes a stream-of-consciousness algorithm unto itself - something almost inhuman.

To engage with art we have to be willing to be wrong venture outside our psychic comfort zones suspend disbelief and remember that art explores and alters consciousness simultaneously.

Amazingly when you add life and consciousness to the equation you can actually explain some of the biggest puzzles of science.

But look I was born in 1956 the peak year for births in US history. I think I'm very representative of many of the thought processes my generation have been through and by and large people of my age have had their imprint planted on the consciousness of western society for a long time.

In this electronic age we see ourselves being translated more and more into the form of information moving toward the technological extension of consciousness.