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.

In black neighborhoods, everybody appreciated comedy about real life. In the white community, fantasy was funnier. I started looking for the jokes that were equally hilarious across the board, for totally different reasons.

We spend money that we do not have, on things we do not need, to impress people who do not care.

I do not have to build a perfect wall today. I just have to lay a perfect brick.

If you want somethin', go get it. Period.

I so connected to symbolically being able to turn lead into gold. My grandmother used to say, "Life give you a lemon, you go ahead and make lemonade." To me, that's alchemy.

The big thing I tell my kids is you have to control how you label things. It's very important to me they understand the power they have to create the lives that they want.