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There’s a lot of potential that goes unused in places like South Central L.A., a lot of brilliant, smart people who just don’t have that chance to show it.
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Brilliant People Potential Smart Talent
Sometimes you got to start somewhere. And it’s cool, as long as where you start is not where you plan on finishing.
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Planning Start Time Yourself
Creating is really what I like to do. The best thing in the world is to have an idea in the back of your head and then to make that idea into a movie and have people all over the world enjoy it.
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Best Creation Enjoyment Ideas Myself People World
When I was six, God was a white man with a big beard riding on a white cloud. That’s the image television pumps.
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God Image Man Myself Television White
Our records, if you have a dark sense of humor, were funny, but our records weren’t about comedy. They were about protests, fantasy, confrontation and all that.
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Comedy Darkness Fantasy Funny Ourselves Protest Record
I grew up in the seventies and disco was big. That influenced me the most.
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Growth Influence Music Myself
I make a mean cup of coffee, if you give me the right ingredients.
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Coffee Ingredient Myself Right
There’s things people say in the barbershop they won’t even say in their own living room, because it’s just one of those zones where nobody’s going to judge you too much about your dumb opinion.
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Judgement Live Oneself Opinion People
My advice for anyone who wants to follow in my footsteps: create your own path, hone your talent, be ready to show your talent, and don’t doubt yourself.
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Advice Creation Doubt Follow Talent Yourself
Early in my career, people wanted to hear music about protest, about trying to change things.
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Career Change Early Inspirational Music People Try
I definitely support cop acting more than cops, but all of them ain’t bad, just some of them.
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Act Bad Myself Person Support
If you think about stuff that happened when you were young, it stays with you forever.
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Forever Stay Thinking Young Yourself
You never get tired of seeing yourself on TV. It’s always extra cool… always a treat.
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Myself Seeing Tired Treat
Money is the root of all evil. Yeah, money is the root. It’s not racism and “this-ism” and “that-ism”; it’s our thirst and hunger for money. And that’s where all the bodies are buried.
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Body Bury Money Race Root
I always want to read the script before I totally commit.
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Commitment Myself Reading Scripture
There’s nothing wrong with starting off in a box, but you got to have a plan to come out that box.
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Limitation Planning Start Wrong Yourself
Doing it your own way, not having to go exactly by the book to be successful.
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Book Success Way Yourself
A lot of people have a misconception of what the ghetto is all about. You know, it’s only a small percentage of the people that are bad. Everybody else is good.
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Bad Goodness People Small Yourself
You pay to have a good time, you don’t always want to pay to be schooled or sad or reminded how bad you got it. To me a movie theater ain’t always the place for that.
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Goodness Pay Place School Time Yourself
I always was like, “Yo, I’m here, I might as well get what I could take.”
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Ability Myself Potential Right Self Love
I was ready to get out of the box and play something a little different than what everybody has seen.
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Different Myself Play Seen
I think everybody likes a person that stands up for themselves. Nobody likes a punk or a coward.
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Coward Myself Person Stand Thinking
The real is always presented. That hardcore record or movie is not needed in the hood, because it’s already there. You can see it with your own eyes.
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Eyes Hard Present Reality Record Yourself
I believe every pencil has to be sharpened every now and then to stay sharp, or you dull out. So my records, I chose to speak on what black people do, what white people do, what women do, what men do.
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Believe Black Myself Pencil People Sharp Talk White
The silver and black may have another home, but the Raiders will always belong to the people of Los Angeles.
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Black Home People
I wish the world would become what God wanted it to be in the first place, before we tampered with it.
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God Myself Place World
I have a really beautiful life right now, so there is no reason to be hostile. I’m a husband, a father and a man who tries to do the right thing in life and in my work.
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Beautiful Father Life Myself Reason Work

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