You commit a felony, it does not matter who you are, you could be deported.

I've been in the game for 30 years and I came to represent.

We need realism to deal with reality.

It can always be transformed into an avenue of information.

We might be workers, but we are not happy go-lucky jungle bunnies.

And to turn it into rap wasn't too difficult besides just rhymin' the last words of each line.

That song is a story that shows how easily you could get slipped into being labeled as the bad guy, even though what you really trying to do is tell the bad guy to leave you alone.

Hiphop has remained in an infantile stage and has not been allowed to grow.

I think that Hiphop should be a pulpit for the people.

There is not enough high intellect to be catered to and when most people think of Hiphop they think of low intellect.

Nobody thought about having more money than you could ever spend.

I kicked down doors to show that Hiphop has matured. And it may be a little controversial.

I was never a rah-rah person. I never sold drugs or did anything crazy.

Hiphop hasn't had stages of growth through its 30 years of existence.

You commit a felony, it does not matter who you are, you could be deported.

I think they will feel refreshed because I cater to a mature audience.

I never really went to any concerts that I wasn't in.

When I was little, I always used to like to tell stories cuz it was entertaining to people.

People think that I'm conceited, and I'm not a nice person.

It draws you in and creates pictures, so what I do is almost like a talking story book.

I love eggs fried over medium.

Oh, how hard it must be to die anywhere but in one's birthplace.

I was really raised by three women - my mom, and I have two older sisters, one nine years and one 11 years older - so I'm happy to have that many women in the house.

Thanks to aid, a distressing number of African leaders care little about what their citizens want or need - after all it's the reverse of the Boston tea-party - no representation without taxation.

There is no dispute that Albany needs to be changed. There is no dispute that the current situation in Albany is untenable. Nobody knows that better than I do.

I'm an immigrant and I will stay an immigrant forever.

When James Cameron brought me the script, which I developed with both Cameron and Jay Cocks, I wanted to make it a thriller, an action film, but with a conscience, and I found that it had elements of social realism.

There are a lot of people whose livelihoods depend on keeping lots of conservatives terrified and ill-informed. The groups that exist to raise funds raise more funds when they endorse the crazier candidate.

The sea the great unifier is mans only hope. Now as never before the old phrase has a literal meaning we are all in the same boat.

There's more good music being made now than ever before.

Almost certainly, however, the first essential component of social justice is adequate food for all mankind.

The public weal requires that men should betray, and lie, and massacre.

Actors are sellers, and I figured out a long time ago that if you wanted to work a lot, you had to be on the buying side.

I try to compartmentalize as much as possible, and I have the most amazing team in the world. They really set up my time in a way that is completely efficient all the time.

Though the carnival life gonna always shine you cant turn back the time.

You need to become more than one type of athlete. You have to be a sprinter, a weight man and a distance guy all in one.

I love the French for their sarcasm, their irony. I love them for their bad moods.

In schools with a history of chaos, the teacher who can keep the classroom calm becomes virtually indispensable.

When I was 20, my mother died and I went off the rails a little bit. I kinda had my slightly dark period.

Any item in your wardrobe should satisfy one of two criteria: utility and joy.

Sometimes we tend to be in despair when the person we love leaves us but the truth is its not our loss but theirs for they left the only person who wouldnt give up on them.

I wasn't interested at all in doing a documentary. I was not a public figure.

In the aftermath of September 11, and as the 9/11 Commission report so aptly demonstrates, it is clear that our intelligence system is not working the way that it should.

More than anything, the weed really helped with my mental state, because marijuana works on the brain. And if anything, it soothes the brain.

It's just kind of empowering when you become a mother. You just get overwhelmed with this new confidence and you feel really in control of your life. It's been beautiful.