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."

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.

In high school, everybody rapped. You just pounded on the table.

Choose a job you love, Your work is going to fill a large part of your life.

Nashville has always been competitive. My granddaddy called it the Hillbilly Babylon.

There are few who would not rather be taken in adultery than in provocation.

Dying is easy; it's living that's difficult.

We should try to introduce our children to science today as a rebellion against poverty and ugliness and militarism and economic injustice.

We need to reform our school lunch programs. We need to get healthy items into the vending machines.

There's not an awful lot that embarrasses me. I'm the kind of actress that absolutely believes in exposing myself.

Change, like youth, is purely wasted on the young.

Portability is for people who cannot write new programs.

Bobby is the most misunderstood, misquoted celebrity walking the face of this earth