The only mofos in my circle are people that I can learn from.

Just because the laws were changed doesn't mean that the attitudes have changed.

I don't have friends, and it's hard for me to make new friends. Right now, the people that are in my life are the people that I work with.

We have to get back to "we." It's important to get back to "we" not just "I."

I was born at a very crucial time. I consider 1968 to be the Mason Dixon line between pre- and post-civil rights generation ideas, whereas a lot of people born before '68 they kind of went into that Moses mentality. Like, I'm not going to make it, you know, I don't have any hope.

Time will tell. Time is always telling. Time never stops telling.

Crack offered a lot of money to the inner-city youth who didn't go to college. Which enabled them to become businessmen. I know about maybe five people in the entertainment industry who did their peak work as a result of crack usage.