Respect your parents. What they tell you is true. Hard work, dedication and faith will get you anything. Imagination will drive itself. You can get anything you want, but you have to have faith behind all your ideas. Stick to your goals and have an undying faith.

I can't get my medicine.

Black actors on the road, flying around the country working as poets. Those people are inspirations for millions of kids who write.

Well, it's the last step of the Civil Rights Movement: you know, wrap your hands around some money.

Urban pop culture is its own phenomena that is for some reason is left out of Hollywood. It's the most mainstream thing there is.

I feel the choices our president Barack Obama is making now are safer and better.

The book 'Do You!' is about your inner voice. And when you connect to that voice then you - then the freedom comes. And we're only here to be happy. So happy makes money. Money doesn't make happy.