I feel like my job is to make impact, spread love, tell great stories, inspire people, that's what I am going to do.

We all must follow a different path to let our light shine, and that's what makes us so unpredictable and unique.

The biggest weapon is to stay peaceful

If a relationship is going to work, it will require compromise and, even then, it is not always going to end the way you want it to.

Anybody under the age of forty knows hip-hop, gospel and R&B pretty well, and it's all a part of what we consider to be 'black music.' There is a natural synergy between the three.

There are more black men incarcerated today than there were slaves in 1850.

Well, I was always a bit of a political junkie. Even as a kid I would read biographies of presidents and of civil rights leaders like Martin Luther King and Frederick Douglass and Booker T. Washington.