“Punish the deed, not the breed.”

I don’t agree when the USA, that lives by a constitution, says, OK, just because you look this way, we’re going to ask you for your documentation, or you gotta go back to your country.

This is the truth: I’m into sales. I love deals. I’m definitely a sucker for steals.

Don’t be afraid to lose. Listen. And always invest in yourself.

If you look at Cuba what’s the benefit in being in Cuba? Really? It’s almost like being in prison. You can’t think. You can’t have your own opinions. You have no opportunity. You just gotta live life the way you were born into it.

I don’t wanna make hood music, I don’t wanna make street music, I want to make world music, global music, international music.

I’m taking a lot of freestyle music and flipping it.

I make music with no boundaries.

As far as the fans, I always say it because it’s the truth: without them I’m absolutely nothing.

Every time I reach a new audience, that means I’m doing something right.

I’m not a Reggaeton artist and I’m not a Crunk artist either.

Simplicity is the key to success.

I feel like I’ve been fighting in music and creating new ways and new opportunities to make things work even when people thought it wouldn’t.

Music to me is something I did as a hobby.

I’m sharp, What the street taught me how to do is how to hustle. How to make something out of nothing.

As Americans, which I suffer from myself, we have ADD.

In any country when you throw something in somebody’s face, it’s disrespectful.

When we see others as the enemy, we risk becoming what we hate. When we oppress others, we end up oppressing ourselves. All of our humanity is dependent upon recognizing the humanity in others.

If you want to keep people subjugated, the last thing you place in their hands is a Bible. There’s nothing more radical, nothing more revolutionary, nothing more subversive against injustice and oppression than the Bible.

When the missionaries came to Africa they had the Bible and we had the land. They said “Let us pray.” We closed our eyes. When we opened them we had the Bible and they had the land.

Where there is oppression, there will be resistance.

People get used to anything. The less you think about your oppression, the more your tolerance for it grows. After a while, people just think oppression is the normal state of things. But to become free, you have to be acutely aware of being a slave.

The rage of the oppressed is never the same as the rage of the privileged.

Being oppressed means the absence of choices.

Black revolutionaries do not drop from the moon. We are created by our conditions. Shaped by our oppression.