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

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 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.

We're all stories in the end. Just make it a good one, eh ?

The problem is, that no matter where you work there's going to be people that are so dumb you wonder how the hell they remember to breathe every morning.

The only way around it is to stay with one guy forever." But does forever have a built-in ending...?

I found my niche as a character actor, and I've never felt like a movie star or teen idol and never wanted to.

Well, first of all, no professor should be able to say, I refuse to defend my position. I refuse to debate my position.

One of the things I've learned is there's no lesson to be learned. You have to resign yourself to the fact that mistakes are going to be made at any time in the creative process.

Every time I see a film about Joan of Arc I'm convinced she'll get away with it. It's the only way to get through life.

A man who doesn't trust himself can never really trust anyone else.

Tis a human trait to hate one you have wronged

I never have the feeling that I actually know what I'm doing or anything that I'm writing is any good.