When I was nine years old, living on the south side of Chicago, my father was a minister and my mother used to scrub floors.
MR. TI used to bodyguard for Muhammad Ali, Leon Spinks, Sugar Ray Leonard. I used to bodyguard a lot of diamond merchants.
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I was mischievous. I wasn’t bad. I stole food so we could eat. My mother didn’t know.
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I have a heart of gold, but I’m really a marshmallow in my heart.
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If you look at my job, my union card, it says ‘actor.’ It don’t say nothing about celebrity, movie star, nothing like that, and that’s one thing that keeps me humble.
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I’ve never seen myself as a star. I never call myself a celebrity or a superstar, whatever.
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I try to use my experience and the fact that I grew up in the ghetto – I tell people you don’t have to rob or steal to get out of the ghetto.
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Life guided me to being a bodyguard, protecting people, then in the movies, so I’m happy with everything because basically all I ever wanted to do was be a good son and take care of my mother.
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I used to tell her some man gave me $10 to sweep out the yard. I was like Robin Hood. I took from the rich and gave to the poor. Me.
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Obama’s not Jesus. He can’t walk on water.
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I use my celebrity status to inspire someone, to give them hope.
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I believed in God when cancer come to me. Now when I speak, I speak with authority because I’ve been there.
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Lord, so when I speak, my words might motivate, might inspire somebody, Lord, when they see me, let them see you. When they hear me, Lord, let them hear you. In your holy name I pray.’
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I get up every morning and say, ‘Father, give me strength today, not strength so I can lift 500 pounds, but give me strength.
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I said I would never wear my gold again because it would be insensitive and disrespectful to all the people who died and lost everything in Katrina.
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I would never do a commercial if I thought it was offensive to anyone.
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I listen to my mother, and that keeps me out of trouble. I’m a good son.
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