The road that I'm on is a path that I didn't choose. It chose me. I'm just trying to walk it, and to do the best that I can to honor and respect it.

If you're black, you can't just be ordinary. All successful black people are extraordinary.

Statistics say that I'm supposed to be in jail. And I'm not supposed to be alive.

Music is always around, and it helps to heighten any emotion.

We don't have to wait for people to green light our projects, we can create our own intersections.

You know, people at Wal-Mart are standing there with their uniforms on. I feel like I'm putting on a uniform to do a movie. I don't feel like it's dressing in drag.

There was our house in New Orleans. Two blocks in front of us were these beautiful mansions and two blocks behind us were the ghetto, projects, and that's where I had to go to school, but I would always pattern my life looking forward. It was almost literal.