Make a choice of what you want, who you want to be and how you're going to do it. The universe will get out of your way.

For our family, the entire structure of our life, our home, our business relationships - the entire purpose is for everyone to be able to create in a way that makes them happy. Fame is almost an inconsequential by-product of what we're really trying to accomplish. We are trying to put great things into the world, we're trying to have fun, and we're trying to become the greatest versions of ourselves in the process of doing things we love.

I've trained myself to illuminate the things in my personality that are likable and to hide and protect the things that are less likeable.

On learning to swim: I'm too big to have some woman hold my stomach and say 'Now kick your feet.'

Don't ever let someone tell you that you can't do something. You got a dream, you gotta protect it. When people can't do something themselves, they are going to tell you that you can't do it. You want something, go get it. Period.

I love being black in America, and especially being black in Hollywood.

Gettin' jiggy wit it is, like, the next level of cool. It's cool to the eighth power. Some people are fly, some people are kind of hot. But when you are the jiggiest, when you exude jiggy-essence, it's the acme of cool.