rather than take this thanksgiving holiday to read or study (which i will, mind you, later on..it's always "later on"), i thought i'd provide you with some hip hop quotables.

check these out. they might save your life.

"It's about love for cars, love for funds
Loving to love mad sex, loving to love guns
Love for opposite, love for fame and wealth
Love for the fact of no longer loving yourself"
- de la soul

"Peace and blessings manifest with every lesson learned,
If your knowledge were your wealth then it will be well earned"
- e. badu

"Everytime I pick up a paper or turn on the tube a news flash
another youth passed school ground's a bloodbath
Politicians caught in sex scams
Major sports figures in and out of rehabs
Holy war with Jews and Arabs
Recalls and cutbacks feature story go to those who gay bash
Bulimic and anorexic actors and actresses swappin' secrets on their freakiest fetishes
Pedophile predators on the interent
Numerous reports of preteen sex
30 second updates on side effects of modern medicine
Rap veteren turn convicted felon
Domestic violence rate excellin'
embezzlement the deficit negligence
More serial killings gang related death still in existence
Mosquitoes dead crows and the viruses that they're inflicted
with road rage incidents it's sickenin'

Talk about beautiful things a little bit
Talk about beautiful things a little bit
Talk about beautiful things a little bit
Talk about beautiful things a little bit"
- bahamadia

"Even when the condition is critical, when the livin is miserable
Your position is pivotal, I ain't bullshittin you

Now, why would I lie? Just to get by?
Just to get by, we get fly

The TV got us reachin for stars
Not the ones between Venus and Mars, the ones that be readin for parts
Some people get breast enhancements and penis enlargers
Saturday sinners Sunday morning at the feet of the Father
They need somethin to rely on, we get high on all types of drug
When, all you really need is love"
- kweli