It's funny how people who ain't never been down there can think that America is so fair and that we should be alright. It's funny that the people who have their foot on our neck are telling us, 'Get up. What's wrong with you?'

You become a writer on a television show, and you see yourself doing bigger and better things, you don't wait till they tell you, "Here's the way to do bigger and better things," you start writing. You start writing that material that you might be doing off to the side. Nobody's going to be paying you for that, but it could turn into something big.

The best thing I've done with my money is buy a house for my family. You wake up to a house you love and you feel like somebody.

That's always been my approach, to expose what's going on and what's not being said. I could go the selfish route, and probably make a whole lot more money, but that's not what it's about, it's about speaking for people who can't speak for themselves.

We're in this entertainment business really to give the audience what they want.

[Boycott Oscar] is like crying about not having enough icing on your cake. It's just ridiculous.

Rap is just somebody getting something off his chest. That's all it is.