Anything you really want, you can attain, if you really go after it.

What we think determines what happens to us, so if we want to change our lives, we need to stretch our minds.

People who want the most approval get the least and people who need approval the least get the most.

Men who want to support women in our struggle for freedom and justice should understand that it is not terrifically important to us that they learn to cry; it is important to us that they stop the crimes of violence against us.

As long as there is rape... there is not going to be any peace or justice or equality or freedom. You are not going to become what you want to become or who you want to become. You are not going to live in the world you want to live in.

You really have to soak up the culture of the people to get it right. If you're making a fiction film, it's entertainment, but you want it to be as real as possible.

My senior year I was basically supporting myself, so it was like, Do you want to eat and pay the rent, or do you want to go to school? I wanted to eat and pay the rent.

I'm always going back to one thing - my family... It's my family, my religion, my fighters. Put them in any order you want.

I just don't want to do a movie because it paid me a lot of money.

I still make more money as I do as an actor than director, however I don't want to be a commercial director.

The thing is, the studio then forget that you're an actor and that you can do other things, and so since they pay you for that, they don't want you to do anything else.

I'm getting some really good work. And because I'm delivering what they want, more good work is coming my way.

Whoever is content with the world, and who profits from its lack of justice, does not want to change it.

People know me, and want to know me, as a baller more than anything else.

When I came out rapping on my record, a lot of people said, Oh, you just want to be like Puff.