Hip hop has been an integral part of my life and my whole career. I started off doing videos with Ice Cube, and Dre, and Mary J. Blige, and TLC. So I've been involved in hip hop since the beginning.

Because I didn't go to film school, you learn so much from a lot of creative artists.

There's always things from shooting a film that you pick up that hopefully make you better.

Even a soul submerged in sleep is hard at work and helps make something of the world.

When it comes to recognizing your greatness, start first within your mind. Start now, in this moment. Imagine, imagine, imagine and then believe!

Art is a positive "FORCE" that bring beings together for the common good. Only the people who had lost a piece of themselves can create the unimaginary.

Those who are rich cannot see reasons for poor becoming poorer and those who are poor cannot see reasons for rich getting richer.

To presume a want of motives for such contests . . . would be to forget that men are ambitious, vindictive, and rapacious.

Sometimes I think my soul is full of weeds!

My writing, I am prepared to think, may be a substitute for something I have been born without - a so-called normal relation to society. My books are my relation to society.

The ablest man I ever met is the man you think you are.

I saw a subliminal advertising executive, but only for a second.

Open your eyes, whether you presently believe it or not, your life is already abundant. Before you can accept abundance in your life, you have to notice it.