We don't see the people who are doing real things getting enough props. We often see politicians who are everywhere but nowhere at the same goddamn time. You know the kind of person: You see them everywhere on television but nowhere in front of your face.

My mother went to university, my father didn't. But they are very educated, very wise people. My father went to the military, so he's worldly.

The truth has no form, you know. It's not like walking around trying to actually ask for favors and to be acknowledged, it is what it is.

If they can send you to war at 18, maybe it's beneficial for some people to think that most of us gotta go to war for our own existence.

I think right about now we have to beware of marketed Malcolms and Martins. Real people do real things.

I spread the message of hope and of unity. That's what gets me up in the morning. I can tell you what is wrong, but I can't tell you how to fix it. I'm a raptivist, not a politician. I deal in hope.

The powers that be are trying to meld, shape, and corral the culture of hip-hop into another speaking voice for the government.