I have nothing to do with racism in America; it was here when I got here.

Handshaking means, 'I don't have a weapon.'

You can't pick when you're touched. You can't pick the time. It just is. It's the reality. What it is, is. I can't change the past. I can only deal with the present and the future.

If your hair is relaxed, white people are relaxed. If your hair is nappy, they're not happy.

An audience can be like a pack of wolves.

I think about never losing my voice, never giving in, never selling out, always keeping black, always sticking to the street. Staying neighborhood and not Hollywood.

I'm passionate about what I do. I'd be naive to be passive.