My Mother Really Wanted Me To Be

Everyone Else Can Do Violence. You Know, Clint Eastwood, Sylvester Stallone, They Can All Do Shoot-'em-ups. Arnold Schwarzenegger Can Kill 10 People In One Minute, And They Don't Call It "white Exploitation." They Win Awards And Get Into All The Magazines. But If Black People Do It, Suddenly It's Different Than If A White Person Does It. People Respond Differently Because People Come From Different Places.

The African-american Community Is Not Monolithic. It's Liberal And Conservative.

I Was Kind Of A Bouncy Kid. I Used To Roller-skate Into The Sides Of Cars.

I Believe That If We Have To Pay 100 Percent For Our College Tuition, And Then We Get Into The Workplace, And We're Only Given 70 Percent Of Our Counterparts' Salaries, Then We Shouldn't Have To Pay But 70 Percent Of Our College Tuition. Maybe That'll Stop The Bullshit.

There Are Just Certain Realities About Our World And I Just Happen To Be Creative Within It.