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" Obama reminds me of the black kid at a white school that don't nobody want to play with. "

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" I'm not the type of actor who is trying to do a whole bunch of different stuff, you know what I mean? "

" 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. "

" I think the worst thing you can do about a situation is nothing. "

" Sometimes when you're relegated to your neighborhood, you forget that there's more important things than your neighborhood going on out in the world. "

" When I did 'Boyz N The Hood', I never thought how we grew up in South Central was interesting enough for a movie. "

" I'm a B-boy at heart. I still like rhyming. It's just the radio game is like Chinese arithmetic. It's hard to know what nuts to crack. But I still love music, been dropping music. Never stopped, really. "

" The moral is that a career can be gone in an instant. And all you have in this world are the people you love. "

" Music is where I have the most creative freedom, but I love producing. To me, that's kind of where all the action is. You get a chance to have your hands in every aspect of a film. From picking a director, sometimes picking a writer, to the actors, the wardrobe, set design, editing, music, and marketing. "

" Rap is just somebody getting something off his chest. That's all it is. "

" There's never really been a real hood Christmas movie. "

" My grandmother worked at one of those Bel-Air mansions, and we would go - not too often, but every now and then - to pick her up. Hollywood was probably 12 miles from my house, but it might as well have been a million miles away. The only time I saw that world was on TV. Until I started making records. "

" I make a mean cup of coffee, if you give me the right ingredients. "

" Even though I have a nice house, nice family, the rest of my generation is still in South Central L.A. My cousins, my brothers, my sisters, they don't wanna move out. They don't want to and they don't have the means to sustain it. That's where my heart is and that's what I think about all the time. "

" Early in my career, people wanted to hear music about protest, about trying to change things. "

" I think reading is important in any form. I think a person who's trying to learn to like reading should start off reading about a topic they are interested in, or a person they are interested in. "

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

" I have a lot of milestones that I'm proud of when it comes to music, 'Amerikkka's Most Wanted,' I'm extremely proud of that. Just because of what I had to go through to get that music produced, that album produced. "

" Don't worry about being a star, worry about doing good work, and all that will come to you. "

" South Central is just who I am. "

" I love music. It's freedom, a way to deal with pent-up frustration. "

" 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. "

" Snoop Dog is the Phil Jackson of youth football coaches. He ain't going to accept nothing but a winner. "

" I remember wishing there was snow in L.A. And how jealous we used to get of those Christmas specials with kids playing in the snow. "

" I did 'Are We There Yet?' because I wanted to do a movie for my fans' kids. Black kids don't really see movies on this budget for them, starring them. And there's so many white kids that love that movie. "

" For me rappers and dancers are poets and artists and often times the most interesting performances are given by them. "

" I wake up at 5:30, 6 in the morning, but don't head into the office right away. I like to hang out with my wife, talk about things, get some coffee, you know. "

" Music has done a lot to enhance the emotions of sports. It's played in arenas. Whenever there is footage cut together they're always using music. And it goes together, you know. "

" The thing is with hip-hop, it has its waves and the waves crash against the beach and the new waves come in. So to stay relevant you have to roll with that. "

" Can't step from one movie set to the next. Only Samuel L. Jackson can do that. All us mere mortals can't do that! "