Some say the blacker the berry, the sweeter the juice/I say the darker the flesh then the deeper the roots/I give a holler to my sisters on welfare/Tupac cares, and don't nobody else care

Mo' nigga mo' nigga mo' niggaz/I'd rather be dead than a po' nigga/Let the Lord judge the criminals/If I die, I wonder if heaven got a ghetto

You know it makes me unhappy (what's that)/When brothas make babies, and leave a young mother to be a pappy

Living on Earth / Tell me, what's a black life worth? / A bottle of juice / is no excuse, the truth hurts!

I am colored but I offer nothing in the way of extenuating circumstances except the fact that I am the only Negro in the United States whose grandfather on the…

But until we come up with certain guarantees - for example, guaranteed jobs where mothers move off welfare - I support welfare very strongly.

No other major Western democracy has such a weak family support program.