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" If there are kids who want to follow in my footsteps, I'd say that my shoes are too big for them to fill! But their shoe size is just perfect. "

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" I don't have to really be in the 60s. Every time I hail a cab in New York, and they pass me by and pick up the white person, then I get a dose of it. Or when they don't want to take you to Harlem. I grew up with that. "

" To me, doing a gay pride show is one of the most fun things. My first show that paid more than $10,000 was in a gay club on New Year's Eve in San Francisco. "

" Bowling, I like bowling. I've been getting into this bowling thing. It's kinda fun. "

" I've hosted the Soul Train awards, the American Music Awards... and I had my own talk show. So if I can't host by now, what the hell can I do? "

" I realized there was racism because people thought, 'Oh, if you like roll 'n' roll, that makes you like a white kid.' "

" My mother wouldn't allow me to speak slang when I was growing up. But when I got outside, around my friends, it was 'Yo' and 'That's the joint' and 'Yo, what's up?' So I had my game for my friends and my game for my mom. "

" I've never been the straight rapper that is going to stand in a cipher and battle all day. I started off battle rapping, but to me, making songs became more important than freestyles... I've met many rappers who can freestyle but can't make a record. "

" How many crossroads are you allowed to have in life? I seem to have a lot of crossroads. I think maybe I crossed back across the same road too often. "

" I don't have to take a trip around the world or be on a yacht in the Mediterranean to have happiness. I can find it in the little things, like looking out into my backyard and seeing deer in the fields. "

" I always loved all kinds of music. I would watch musicals a lot as a kid, on TV, watch the Fred Astaire movies. I'd watch 'The Wizard of Oz.' I was a big Jerry Lewis fan, and they'd have these big bands and someone singing - some siren, or some guy singing some gorgeous song. I was always enamored of that style of music. "

" Beauty is not just a white girl. It's so many different flavors and shades. "

" Yeah, I'm from Jersey; it's almost like I was automatically born a Nets fan. "

" I promised my mom that if, after a year of putting 150 percent into my career it didn't work out, I would go back to school. I never did go back. "

" I'm not the type that's going to sit and preach to people if they don't need it just because I've been around the block a few times. "

" I'm proud of everything I do, but I think I'm the most happy about becoming a rapper. It was my entrance into everything. That helped me get into acting. "

" Look at people for an example, but then make sure to do things your way. Surround yourself with positive people. "

Surround Yourself

" I do feel like I have a direct connection with God for some reason; always have since I was a little kid - I would talk to God, talk to the sky. "

" I really don't know how to be anyone else, and whenever I try to be anyone else, I fail miserably. Or I disappoint myself. It doesn't build my self-esteem, and it doesn't help me grow me at all. "

" I'm not one of those people who wake up chatting. I usually don't want to speak for the first 10 or 20 minutes. And I don't really want you to talk to me either! "

" I enjoy going to work and having a good time. It's tough when you got to work with people who just are in a bad mood all the damn time. "

Having A Good Time

" I would say I'm voluptuous. Statuesque. Definitely curvaceous. "

" Anyone who knows me knows that I'm way more of a joker than I am a serious person. "

" I am not one to turn down macaroni and cheese, even late at night. I love Italian food. I love pasta... A refrigerator full of water and Gatorade? Honey, that's just not gonna happen. "

" My mom was my main influence growing up, and Phylicia Rashad reminded me a lot of my mother, just the way she handled certain things, she was... not soft-spoken but smooth-spoken. Just very calm, cool, collected about things. "

" I got a few marriage proposals in my 20s. I just wasn't ready. I just knew if I committed, I would've wound up doing something wrong, messing it up. I still felt like I had some living to do. "

" Sometimes you do have to bank on yourself. You do have to believe in your ideas enough to really get out there and fight for it despite what people think of some young kids from the hood. "

" I never pictured myself as just a rapper; I always wanted to act and do whatever else I could do. I always felt like I could do a lot of different things. "

" To wanna be me is to go through not just the good but the bad. You wanna share my story identically? Man, you gonna take some lumps. "

" I know people who are twice as creative as I am, twice as smart, but they didn't do anything because they feared going into a room and opening their mouths. My parents told me to truly accomplish things in my life, there would be times I would have to stand alone. It may be scary, but that's what it requires. "