If you have power, you have to empower.

They say your attitude determines your latitude.

Anytime I've had a big thing that's ever pierced and cut across the Internet, it was a fight for justice. Justice. And when you say justice, it doesn't have to be war. Justice could just be clearing a path for people to dream properly.

I love [my father] so much with all my heart and my soul with every bone in my body I love him so much because he's done so much for me.

We have the ability to approach our race like ants, or we have the ability to approach our race like crabs.

Because when you keep on diminishing art and not respecting the craft and smacking people in their face after they deliver monumental feats of music, you're disrespectful to inspiration, and we as musicians have to inspire people who go to work every day, and they listen to that Beyonce album and they feel like it takes them to another place.

I don't expect to be understood at all.