You got two black folk representing us through the Sixties. One of them was for violence, one was against it, and they both are dead.

See, I don't want brothers shooting. I want them talking.

It's so easy for a kid to join a gang, to do drugs. We should make it that easy to be involved in football and academics.

There's no such thing as losing touch. You can take me out of the ghetto, but you can't take the ghetto out of me.

My mama couldn't give me what I wanted. I had all right clothes, but the people I was with had better clothes. I felt that I had to have better clothes.

Reggae is music of love. It has joy and pain, but it feels good.

COAST TO COAST, L.A. TO CHICAGO.