I lived in Detroit until I was six. My older sister was living with us, and she listened to the Ohio Players and Stevie Wonder, so I grew up listening to stuff like that.

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."

I've loved him for a decade. And I had him for one day before I made a complete and utter mess of things. Or he did. I'm still not sure about that.

If life has a base that it stands upon, if it is a bowl that one fills and fills and fills - than my bowl without a doubt stands upon this memory.

To put an arrogant 'famous' writer in his place: pretend to be illiterate.

Christmas coming means one thing for comedians: office party gigs!

The uncontested absurdities of today are the accepted slogans of tomorrow.

The obvious issue is providing clean drinking water and sanitation to every single human being on earth at the cost of little more than one year of the Kyoto treaty.

Through everything when you have these experiences in life it is important to remember the simple fact that family is always the main thing and most important part of your life.

I write and rewrite and rewrite and write and like to turn in what I think is finished work.

You always recognize great champions... how they come back from a loss.

Twenty years from now, I hope I'm consistently in my life, in the zone. I have seen the next year before.