When you connect to a primal idea - life, death, hunger, hope, fear - any of those primal ideas are going to translate, and I think that's the thing that I've always been attracted to in my work.

I try to speak my points of view about black America, and how I feel about black men and the role that black men should play in their lives with their children and in their lives with their women.

Just stay ready. Stay in shape and then you don't have to rush to train before the movie starts. I'll show you my abs later because I’m in shape. But that idea, if you stay ready, you don’t have to get ready.

A rapper is about being completely true to yourself. Being an actor is about changing who you are.

The greatest dreams are always unrealistic.

If you learn how to defeat that person when you're running. You will know how to not quit when things get hard in your life.

Just as a person, just in my life, the way I was raised, my grandmother made it very clear that God will make a way.