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

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.

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.

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.

Always look at good side of a man. And forget his faults.

When you've got everything and think you've got nothing you've actually got less

Endless days of dark indoors and hateful glances are enough to set a rime on anyone’s bones.

When I look in the mirror, I see me.Who do you see?

I'm somebody who believes in funny things, and laughing, but I do like for them to come from a place that addresses the human condition.

Great art must be a living thing, or it is not art at all.

Americans are a free people, who know that freedom is the right of every person and the future of every nation. The liberty we prize is not America's gift to the world; it is God's gift to humanity.

One evening when I had my wood-burning stove going I realized I hadn't thought of dessert.

Don't all morals go out the window if they're hot enough?

They are hare-brain'd slaves.