Hip-hop music was something I grew up with, it was something that I loved since I was a little kid, and it's something that I chose to partake in an early age.

The world is an unfair place because of bullying. A lot of parents loose their children because of bullying next time think twice before bullying someone.

In 1984, my mom gave birth to my older sister, Teresa. Due to a complicated delivery, she needed a blood transfusion, and at that moment, my mom had HIV+ blood put into her body.

I graduated in 2009, which - if you think back to where the economy was at that time - was an interesting time to graduate.

There's an open door now more than ever to be making any type of beats that you want.

Some songs go super-quick; some take a really long time.

When artists who are not associated with the typical infrastructure get recognition, that becomes a cultural movement.

I love history, cultural and religious studies, philosophy, photography and traveling.

For me personally, to hop onboard and use the amazing success and blessings in my life to pull off something like the 30/30 Project is awesome.

I have an AIDS ribbon tattooed on my arm.

...My point is, I went crazy. When I saw what a black, awful joke the world was. I went crazy as a coot! I admit it! Why can't you?

Ghosts are some of the loneliest people you will ever meet.

Then I resolved that I would go back out there and somehow cope with the situation, despite the fact that I lacked a strategy and was frightened to the pit of my being.

There's too much down time making movies. That leads to boredom. And that leads to trouble.

When gratitude dies on the altar of a man's heart, that man is well-nigh hopeless.

I will be a man among men; and no longer a dreamer among shadows.

Just after I entered my teens I suddenly entertained an insatiable enthusiasm for the delightful habit of criticizing others.

What you want to be defines what you become.

The civil rights movement was devoid of grace; it was using some unfortunate people as means to a communistic end.

The habit of doing more than is necessary can only be earned through practice.