The most important educational vehicle in all life is a parent figure.

When I say, 'I don't care what white people think,' I mean that.

Nothing separates the generations more than music. By the time a child is eight or nine, he has developed a passion for his own music that is even stronger than his passions for procrastination and weird clothes.

Pay off your student loan. Even if you don't have a job...Because when you finally get a job you're going to be one of us.

we cannot afford to settle for being just average; we must learn as much as we can to be the best that we can. The key word is education - education with maximum effort. Without it, we cannot be in charge of ourselves or anyone else.

Every father says the same thing: “Where's your mother?”

My grandfather said, "When you become senile, you won't know it."