I love any time you can enlighten people to mistakes, that’s how I started my career.
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I always was like, “Yo, I’m here, I might as well get what I could take.”
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I do what I do. You like it, great. You don’t, go listen to somebody else. I’m stickin’ with the people who stuck with me.
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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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I don’t cook gumbo, but I just know it’s a lot of good ingredients in it. And, with a movie, you got to have all those ingredients.
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I was ready to get out of the box and play something a little different than what everybody has seen.
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If I only had 24 hours to live, I would spend the time telling everybody I love that I love them.
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Don’t get a movie confused with real life. I’m a well-rounded human being like everyone else.
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The moral is that a career can be gone in an instant. And all you have in this world are the people you love.
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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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I never was in the Nation of Islam… I mean, what I call myself is a natural Muslim, ’cause it’s just me and God.
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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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If you really look at my lyrics, nobody’s exempt. Nobody’s exempt from observation, criticism or what I think is correction.
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You like a woman, she’s got kids, it’s a package. You can’t just go in one-sided.
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I’ve been fighting my whole career to show a different side and prove naysayers – not prove them wrong, because I don’t think you should get your energy from negative people.
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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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