No one wants to sell to just 12% of the population for the entire length of their careers. It creates a difficult and less-profitable environment. But Hollywood has lived with that limiting mantra, and only a few black stars have managed to break through.

Be encouraged. Stay on your hustle. You can't fail until u quit.

I think people instinctively know that their job is to give service and that they are part of a community. It had a great impact on me when my father walked the picket lines and I walked with him during the civil rights movement.

Never change for the mainstream—stay in your lane, and if you’re talented and resilient enough the mainstream will come to you.

I'm still moving around.We're building a platform to put a song out every week for 52 weeks called ADD52.

I don't eat anything that runs away from me.

Nowhere in the Bible, Koran, or Torah does it say, "If you curse, then you're going to hell." But everywhere it says that if you kill, you're going to wherever they send you, depending on the religion.