I never set out to be a role model, but I guess parents like it because I am dedicated to school.

Videos are more like photography. It's not as much about trying to tell a story as it is creating images.

Before high school ended, I started applying to college. It really wasn't even a choice because of the brainwashing of my parents.

I had short hair for a while, but I ended up loving it.

I even lived on campus to get the college experience. I had five roommates and I still keep in touch with them while I'm on the road.

I believe in fate, I believe in hard work, and I feel like if I just keep marching, the path will kind of appear before me.

You can't copy style, you gotta create your own.

I was only 11 when we filmed the pilot. The idea of a rapper being a star on a sitcom just wasn't heard of.

Is America truly a democracy? Has America ever been a democracy with the institution of slavery?

I'm going to go to school. It doesn't matter what the outcome is as long as I did it. I can say I did it.

Will Smith said if I ever need some help, he was there for me.

If you aren't happy for what you already have then what makes you think you will be happy with more.

They thought I was a Surrealist, but I wasn't. I never painted dreams. I painted my own reality.

Our fathers gave us many laws which they had learned from their fathers. These laws were good.

The issue is we're losing leverage. Governments are increasingly getting more power and we are increasingly losing our ability to control that power, and even to be aware of that power.

The motion pictures I have made and the plays I have chosen to direct represent my convictions.

We have the power to do any damn fool thing we want to do, and we seem to do it about every ten minutes.

William Shakespeare tried hard to see every facet of every question, probably because he was more interested in questions than in answers. That's a big part of what makes him great, in my opinion.

In hell, the Devil is God.

My message to women is: Women: We can do it. We are capable of doing almost anything, but we must learn we cannot do it all at once, we need to prioritize.

The best education in the world is that got by struggling to get a living.