“The boys in the hood are always hard.”

The kids from the streets don’t want preaching or messages. They want what they can identify with. They want to hear about the reality of their situation, not fairy tales. They don’t care if it’s ugly; they just want reality.

Another murder I committed made the front page.

If you want to get your point across, you gotta cuss.

I have seven children by six different mothers. Maybe success was too good to me.

Movies don’t make people act a fool. People act a fool because they want to act a fool.

I’m not a registered Republican or Democrat. I don’t even vote.

Get thee behind me Satan, and push me along. I’m kin to the devil.

What the cops did to Rodney King was wrong, and the officers who beat him should be sent straight to prison.

A solution to stop gang banging: SNOW!!

Nuthin’ can avoid this shot ’cause it’s hittin’ It’s so cool when you touch it, wear a mitten

I go to correctional facilities and talk to kids there. They have little kids in there who are, like, 12 years old, stealing cars and stuff like that.

You know, T can stand for anything. T stand for working hard. T stand for loving thy neighbor. T stand for feeding the hungry. T stand for just working, working, working, being happy on the set, you know, lifting everybody’s spirits. T stands for just a nice guy.

I guess when we get older, we try so hard to get our game back. Sometimes it happens, and sometimes it doesn’t.

I always knew ‘My Dawg’ would be a hit, but I didn’t even know what a hit was. When I made the song I knew it sounded hard.

What I might feel like is hard work, another person is dying to do.

My story is going to be completely different than someone else’s story in terms of hard work.

I still love to walk on stage and make people laugh, and I work very, very hard at it, and I take it seriously.

The Republican Party has become overwhelmingly so extreme that it’s hardly a traditional political party anymore.

And I told him, if I am so hard to love, then let me run wild.