The African-American community still needs to come together as one and stand up for rights of the people and of what's happening in their culture, their community.

Hopefully people hear that a part of what hurts society has a lot to do with the diet, the food that you're eating. So let's be careful.

Success means different things to different people. To me, the greatest quality of successful human beings is the ability to love.

I'm a big reader. My kids love reading, and I think it's important, not just for development but for bonding. You start reading to kids before they can even understand what you're saying to them, so I look at it as a fundamental tool for connection.

No matter the bad things that happened in past time, let's try to live the best we can now.

My father's songs don't intimidate me; my father's songs are my songs. My songs are his songs. There's no intimidation.

I don't like to do things for any other reason than it happens spontaneously or there's something that makes it happen naturally. I don't like putting down too many plans and trying to do a strategy to get a certain response or a certain effect.