“Ain’t no love in the hood only hearts torn/Love letters to the innocent and unborn/All the babies that died up on the table/Wasn’t able to breathe, cause the family wasn’t able/Can’t, blame her I would do the same/All I could give it was my debt and my last name” ~2Pac Words 2 My First Born
“I measure the progress of a community by the degree of progress which women have achieved.” ~B. R. Ambedkar (Indian jurist, economist, politician and social reformer)
“Hip Hop is the name of our collective consciousness. We’re not just doing our collective consciousness; we ARE our collective consciousness.” ~KRS-One (Hip Hop Appreciation Week 1998)
Continue to remember those in prison as if you were together with them in prison, and those who are mistreated as if you yourselves were suffering. -Hebrews 13:3 (NIV)