I was only 11 when we filmed the pilot. The idea of a rapper being a star on a sitcom just wasn't heard of.

Videos are more like photography. It's not as much about trying to tell a story as it is creating images.

Before high school ended, I started applying to college. It really wasn't even a choice because of the brainwashing of my parents.

I had short hair for a while, but I ended up loving it.

I even lived on campus to get the college experience. I had five roommates and I still keep in touch with them while I'm on the road.

I believe in fate, I believe in hard work, and I feel like if I just keep marching, the path will kind of appear before me.

You can't copy style, you gotta create your own.

I never set out to be a role model, but I guess parents like it because I am dedicated to school.

Is America truly a democracy? Has America ever been a democracy with the institution of slavery?

I'm going to go to school. It doesn't matter what the outcome is as long as I did it. I can say I did it.

Will Smith said if I ever need some help, he was there for me.

Security is not the absence of danger but the presence of God no matter what the danger.

But the fact is, no matter how good the teacher, how small the class, how focused on quality education the school may be none of this matters if we ignore the individual needs of our students.

The construction of Europe is an art. It is the art of the possible.

My mother wanted me to be her wings, to fly as she never quite had the courage to do. I love her for that. I love the fact that she wanted to give birth to her own wings.

I'm a very old-fashioned novelist. I write 19th-century novels, where a lot of rules apply.

Anyone who doesn't love animals has a serious hole in the heart.

No freedom is secure if your property rights are not secure.

God helps those who work, not those who are idle. No one helps an inactive person, but one who joins in the labor. The good God himself will bring...work to perfection.

The only thing intimidating about Cube is that he's the father of gangsta' rap. You just worry about getting your lines right, or he might shoot you.

In addition to achieving outside the industry, agriculture, national defense science and technology modernization, we are faced with the important task of system modernization.