Hip hop's got 30 years of history and we wanted to show that. A lot of us grew up with it.

Someday I must read this scholar Everyone. He seems to have written so much--all of it wrong.

History had its own way of explaining things. The way historians explain things is by telling a story.

I was a dancer before I was an actress, so I've always been someone who likes to communicate from my body and movement.

If your cloak was a gift, I appreciate it; if it was a loan, I'm not through with it yet.

I'm not the only person in the world who is suffering. I'm trying to talk to the world, responding to those voices.

As far as rearing children goes, the basic idea I try to keep in mind is that a child is a person. Just because they happen to be a little shorter than you doesn't mean they are dumber than you.

I called gold the ultimate bubble, which means it may go higher. But it’s certainly not safe and it’s not going to last forever.

For profits think, "We've got to find that finest talent available, pay them what they're worth, and put them into their daily solutions. " Apply the Who to the What.

Silence is not just about secrecy, Your Majesty. It is grief and it is shame.

So I am getting a little bored with defining one type of film as American and the other European or from somewhere else because the division is no longer true.