Here I stand before you - brown. Color of the mountains Colossal as the earth Wrapped so deliciously within my own joy and misery Feathers of my wings paralyzed by the distance of my mind Here I stand before you, the color of the night Frozen by the potential of me.

I've never really viewed myself as particularly talented. I've viewed myself as slightly above average in talent.

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

Basic principles: no matter what, no matter when, no matter who... any man has a chance to sweep any woman off her feet. He just needs the right broom.

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

If you stay ready, you don't have to get ready.

Well, all I know is what I read in the papers.