I don't want my kids to be like me, I don't want my daughter to date a guy like me. You know, for a guy like me success is to take care of my children to take care of their life and make 'em cushioned. I don't want them to be around people like me. You know, success for me would be that they never have the opportunity of being in the presence of someone like me.

I know how hard it is to be a woman, especially a black woman.

Becoming a vegan gave me another opportunity to live a healthy life. I was so congested from all the drugs and bad cocaine, I could hardly breathe, [I had] high blood pressure, [was] almost dying [and had] arthritis. And once I became a vegan all that stuff diminished.

I was hoping he would get up so I could hit him again and keep him down.

The drug dealers, they sympathize with me. They see me as some sort of pathetic character.

Tupac Shakur always wanted me to smoke weed with him, and I never did it, and I wish I did...That's my biggest regret.

I didn't know how to be any other way. I felt like one of those barbarian kings just coming to conquer the Roman Empire.