Grief is a room without doors.

Grief is the essence of humanity — Man, when he does not grieve, hardly exists.

Grief is a great struggle — grief teaches the steadiest minds to waver.

Grief is a developer of the powers of the mind.

Guilt is the attempt of your psyche to express the good intentions you never really had.

Guilt is a crooked, intricate, inconstant, and various thing; innocence is plain, direct, and simple

Guilt is an existential structure not to be understood as some psychological feeling that one gets when one transgresses some moral code.

Guilt is phenomenological, meaning it is not the result of the transgression of this or that code, but the a priori condition for there to be moral codes.

Hip hop is digital chips on the shoulders of African lips.

Hip hop is the perverse logic of capitalism pursued by an art form.

Hip hop is a mixture of poetry and boxing.

Hip hop is a lot like journalism. One could name practically any problem in the hood and there'd be a rap song for you.

An Insult is difficult to ignore — An injury is much sooner forgotten than an insult.

The Insult is best ignored — No holiness requires us to submit to insult.

An Insult is either sustained or destroyed, not by the disposition of those who insult, but by the disposition of those who bear it.

The Insult is a vulgar practice — The art of returning insult for insult belongs to street-porters.