There might be some sinister modern form of slavery going on.

We need to break boundaries, so every time I feel like, "Oh snap, oh my God, I don't know how this is gonna be received," I also feel this validation, like, "All the greats, all my favorites have felt this."

Racism is within each and every one of us.

I can fathom anything, man. I love biting off more than I can chew and figuring it out.

A greater truth that I think we are faced with on a day-to-day basis as minorities is: We are the color of skin first and people second.

Since we were renamed, and now it feels like 80 percent of the African-American population has the name Washington or Jefferson or some president or slave owner's name. And, I almost wonder is this, like, is this part of a way of taking back the principle of naming your - I might be going too far into this - but naming your kids something of your choice?

[Barack Obama] will touch you on the shoulder and, you know - in that big brother or father figure kind of way. And you really do feel sort of shepherded by him.