My freestyling ability is nonexistent. I can't even write a verse if I tried to sit anywhere and write one. Being a good rapper is hard to do. I'm a good Rapaport, but that's about it.

Right now I'm taking a break from hip-hop documentaries. But I would do it if things lined up.

A Tribe Called Quest music was so inclusive, so conscious, it brought such a community together.

Only a genius can play a fool.

I had a boom box, but I didn't go too far with it because I had a really, really big one. It was like the size of a suitcase, and I was just a little kid.

I don't think the subject of a documentary film should be producers on it.

When I was a kid, my first favorite song was probably Lou Reed's "Walk on the Wild Side."

Being a good rapper is hard to do. I'm a good Rapaport, but that's about it.

Call it stubborn, call it ignorant, call it what you want, but I don't think I have to join a particular faith or culture or creed or religion just to fit in.

Positive doesn't mean unflawed: It means human and vulnerable. If you make a film and you're portraying the subject with respect, you're gonna do it in an honest way.

When you're playing this bad of a character, it's obviously not reality for someone who's not living that life.

My sense of the holy is bound up with the hope that some day my remote descendants will live in a global civilization in which love is pretty much the only law.

Freedom is not a gift bestowed upon us by other men, but a right that belongs to us by the laws of God and nature.

The telephone book is full of facts but it doesn't contain a single idea.

Wayne is truly blessed. He doesn't just have ability, he has a fire inside him.

All games are meaningless if you do not know the rules.

Experience is only half of experience.

Mr. Churchill, Mr. Prime Minister, how many divisions did you say that the pope had?

There is nothing in which a horse's power is better revealed than in a neat, clean stop.

The fear that all this will end. The fear that it won't.