“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.”

Sometimes, when you want to laugh, reality steps in.

Our household is built on love and respect. And we don’t really let negative vibes stay too long. It’s worked out. I got a great family, great kids.

I’m always open, and will criticize myself, too. And I just think being that honest with everybody puts you in a different space than somebody who’s just shooting venom at a certain group or a certain amount of individuals.

You can do anything in the world if you say “Hey man, don’t blame me, the devil made me do it. It’s an easy way to escape responsibility.”

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.

You never get tired of seeing yourself on TV. It’s always extra cool… always a treat.

I was ready to get out of the box and play something a little different than what everybody has seen.

When I was six, God was a white man with a big beard riding on a white cloud. That’s the image television pumps.

Any time there’s racism somewhere in sports, we should get it out of there because sports is a place where everything’s supposed to be fair.

I think, to me, reality is better than being fake.

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.

You want the industry to finally admit that you’re good. But I’m still good without their admission.

I always was like, “Yo, I’m here, I might as well get what I could take.”

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.

Don’t talk about death, I’ve got too much life to live, To many orders to give.

The silver and black may have another home, but the Raiders will always belong to the people of Los Angeles.

Let me ask you one question Is your money that good Will it buy you forgiveness Do you think that it could I think you will find When your death takes its toll All the money you made Will never buy back your soul

A good thing never ends.

I always think it’s better to be not taking drugs or drinking or anything. That’s not saying I’ve never done it because I have. But I sort of learned I think after a while there has been – it didn’t take me that long to realize that it wasn’t a good thing.

For neither good nor evil can last for ever; and so it follows that as evil has lasted a long time, good must now be close at hand.

There’s a starting place. And that starting place for everyone is ambition. We’re all scared of that word today because they made it bad in the late ’80s. As if desire is not a good thing.

The way that you become world-class is… by asking good questions.

The goodness of God is the highest object of prayer and it reaches down to our lowest need.

Good results is not an entitlement. It has to be earned and earned each individual working day via the lens of humility.