Gotta start teaching the children that they can be just what they want to be, there's much more to life than poverty.

My mother was a woman. A black woman. A single mother. Raising two kids on her own. So she was dark skinned. Had short hair. Got no love from nobody except for a group called the Black Panthers. So that's why she was a Black Panther.

Life's a test, mistakes are lessons, but the gift of life is knowing that you have made a difference.

All good niggers, all the niggers who change the world, die in violence. They don't die in regular ways.

Why isn't it hip-hop when I do it? Everybody else can have beef within the music, talk about differences and it's ok. It's music, it's hip-hop, it's ground breaking. When I do it, it's war.

After a long day of trying, to make my songs pay, making love all day against the wall in the hallway.

The reason why I could get into acting was because it takes nothing to get out of who I am and go into somebody else.