Be honest, brutally honest. That is what's going to maintain relationships.

I believe God will make a way.

Hip-Hop isn't just music, it is also a spiritual movement of the blacks! You can't just call Hip-Hop a trend!

From the first time someone says, Who do you think you are? we learn how to repress.

Everything we do should be a result of our gratitude for what God has done for us.

I wouldn't even hold my kids sometimes because I didn't want them to spit up on me when I was dressed for an awards show.

I tried to manipulate and control people, and I harbored resentment. I wanted to be forgiven, but I wouldn't forgive others.

I need to be surrounded by people as passionate and as dedicated as I am.

Nobody's going to force me to do something against my will. What do I owe anybody that I should submit my will to them?

Real religion is no religion at all.

Reality is easy. It's deception that's the hard work.

That strong mother doesn't tell her cub, Son, stay weak so the wolves can get you. She says, Toughen up, this is reality we are living in.

The less I have, the freer I am to do whatever I want to do.

This life is a process of learning.

We don't want people to have expectations of us, but then we have expectations of everybody else.