One of the worst things that happened to black people in America historically is integration. People ask me why I say that and I tell them it's because we gave up all of our control.

Our situation is more psychological than people will admit. Black kids kill Black kids for the same reason cops do. They see no value.

Maybe Hell ain't a place meant for us to Burn, maybe Earth is Hell and just a place for us to Learn.

Faith allows me to feel that as long as I'm in line with God everything will be O.K. and that I'll make it through whatever.

I can admit there are some problems in hip hop but it is only a reflection of what's taking place in our society. Hip hop is sick because America is sick.

We're trying to teach artists that if you're smart enough to develop the material, then you're smart enough to market and promote the album too.

Being a visionary is a blessing and a curse, you're blessed to see things other people are not able to see but you are cursed to sit in it alone

and I'm thinking as our bodies meet that I'll remember this forever, and i just hope it's for all the right reasons.

The average, healthy, well-adjusted adult gets up at seven-thirty in the morning feeling just plain terrible.

Men have as exaggerated an idea of their rights as women have of their wrongs.

But you can't truly hate a man without loving him first, and there's always a trace of that love left over.

I haven't thought about making a music film, but if I did, that would be a very interesting idea.

As God can only be seen by His own light, so He can only be loved by His own love.

You might call this innocence. I had a sense of another world that had not been spoken of to me.

It has absolutely no meaning to me to be an executive producer on a film that I have nothing to do with except come to the wrap party or the premiere on; it's just meaningless.

Want to know where the action in a culture is? Watch where new language is turning up and where the lawyers collect, usually in that sequence.

I have a need to play intensely every day, to fight every match hard.