You cannot get an A if you're afraid of getting an F.

I was raised in Chicago and I guess that was one of the special breeding grounds for gangsters of all colors. That was the Detroit of the gangster world. The car industry was thugs.

I guess hip-hop has been closer to the pulse of the streets than any music we've had in a long time. It's sociology as well as music, which is in keeping with the tradition of black music in America.

You cannot get an A if you're afraid of getting an F.

All the jazz guys had interracial relationships, and even the ladies did. Over the years, interracial relationships have been a hip, almost defiant thing, a way of saying "Nobody can put a boundary around me."

Imagine what a harmonious world it could be if every single person, both young and old shared a little of what he is good at doing.

Everybody has their idiosyncrasies.