The rappers have gone in and created a lot of hit music based upon my influence. And theyll tell you if you ask.

I don't sit back and count up what I've done. There's just always something else to do. There's always a challenge ahead.

There is a place in this world for satire, but there is a time when satire ends and intolerance and bigotry toward religious beliefs... begins.

As a civil rights activist of the past 40 years, I cannot support a show that disrespects those beliefs and practices.

Don't slip into the traps, and don't forget about your 'hood, the kids in the 'hood. Remember, you're disposable, so take advantage while you can.

Religious beliefs are sacred to people, and at all times should be respected and honoured.

A certain administration which I won't call by name took the arts out of the schools, and that left the brothers out on the street with nothing, so they went to the turntables and started rhyming. Then they had a way to express themselves, and that's the birth of hip-hop.