A lot of people heard about gin and juice for the first time from Snoop Dogg, but it was nothing new in rap music, and it was nothing new in the black community.

In reality, I know I'm not hurt directly by sexism; however, my life is made less because of it, so I started thinking about the fallout from relationships in which people feed off each other.

A lot of what we say and do are regurgitated things that have to do with what we think we're supposed to be saying and doing.

I wanted to write a song about sexism, but I didn't want to do it in a mechanical way and be like, "Don't be sexist!" because that's not how I talk in regular life.

Death to the pigs is my basic statement.

I wanted to be part of changing the world. I don't want to just stand by and watch it be however it is.

I was an avowed professional revolutionary by the time I was 15.

A lot of us don’t get a sense of our personal power. I know the vast difference that one person can make in changing things.

I am a person who always feels like I am not doing the right thing because there's always so many things that need to get done.

When I was five years old, me and my cousin got into a fistfight because when "That's the Way (I Like It)" came on the radio, he said, "That's my song," and I said, "No, that's my song."

In high school, everybody rapped. You just pounded on the table.

Go where people sleep and see if they are safe

People confuse goodness with weakness. It is weak people, not good people (goodness demands strength), who are taken advantage of.

If you turn down work because you are frightened of getting typecast, you'll never do anything good.

As I've got older, and since I cut all my hair off, I've felt a bit more liberated about trying different things out.

I intend to defeat ISIS, to do so in a coalition with majority Muslim nations.

Like what's the point being a health nut by day if you're a coke head at night.

If one must fight one should confine oneself to conventional weapons.

Sometimes you’re loved because of your weaknesses. What you can’t do is sometimes more compelling than what you can.

I can understand the poor and stupid voting for Marxism or one of its fashionable variants. If you've no hope of being other than a slave, you may as well opt for the most efficient form of slavery.

Today we find many actors, they are Latin, they are Hispanic, they are living in the Unites States, they are American, but very rarely you find them in a lead role.