We didn't grow up with the sense that where we were was where we were gonna be. We grew up with the sense that where we were almost didn't matter, because we will be becoming something greater.

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.

Begin each day as if it were on purpose.

If you're absent during my struggle, don't expect to be present during my success.

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

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.

10 ways to love: listen, speak, give, pray, answer, share, enjoy, trust, forgive, promise.