I know I am judged unfairly by my physical characteristics and ostracized because of that so I say, "Yes, I'm a black man."

Once you think bigger than yourself then the cause becomes the issue if you think on a higher plain you can come together to work on our problems.

Nothing has more words and performance than rap music.

I don't think a lot of people have been privy to understanding that there's this talent in hip-hop all over the earth that's just as good. It's just that everything out of the U.S. proclaims to be the best, especially L.A. and New York, being that they're the nerve centers and media capitals of the most predominantly media-emitting country in the world.

Getting on the road and driving along a road at night, or even in the daytime and seeing the oceans or whatever, is always liberating.

I think a good thing that needs to change is that people should be at least fearless about expressin' themselves.

I adhere to the philosophy, "I don't care who writes the laws, let me write the songs."