It is important to learn as much as you can about the person and then throw it all away so that you're not in any way doing some sort of mimicry.

I can't speak for what other artists should do. I can only tell you how I live.

Civil rights happened because youth got involved. The youth stood up and helped to break the pattern that their parents had got accustomed to living. The next generation has to take that stand for whatever it is, socially, that they are involved in.

It is important to learn as much as you can about the person and then throw it all away so that you're not in any way doing some sort of mimicry.

I'm probably the most militant person you'll ever meet and I speak my mind without provocation sometimes.

I'm not an optimist. I'm a realist. And my reality is that we live in a multifaceted, multicultural world. And maybe once we stop labeling ourselves, then maybe everyone else will.

I'm not a fan of 'Gone With the Wind.' I didn't like the movie. I didn't like the book.