You can look in a book of wrong and learn more right. If you're reading a book that has all wrong in it , you're learning what not to do.
My moms is strictly Christian but once I got knowledge of self and started reading she used to love when I would sit there and tell her some of the things that I learned. It gave her an open mind to where she started believing in the most high.
I started studying in '85 and got knowledge of self and started spitting. What was going on was taking the understanding of what I was reading and applying it with my life and applying it with my rhymes.
When I hear my first album today I hear myself reading my rhymes but I'm my worst critic.