I was on the junior team when I was a freshman, that’s how good I was. But I wasn’t on my eighth-grade team, because some coach - some Grammy, some reviewer, some fashion person, some blah blah blah - they’re all the same as that coach.

It was a strike against me that I didn't wear baggy jeans and jerseys and that I never hustled, never sold drugs.

Slavery is more mental than anything

Living well eliminates the need for revenge.

I see stuff from the future, and I'm such a futurist that I have to slow down and talk in the present.

Black people can be the most conservative, the most discriminating. Especially among ourselves. It wasn't white people who said all black men have to wear baggy jeans.

And wouldn't change by the change, or the game, or the fame, when he came, in the game, he made his own name