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" When you're talking about an authority figure oppressing against people, it's the people that hold that authority figure up. If you want to get free of this bondage, then we need to think about ways to free ourselves rather than looking to the oppressors to free us. "

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" Hip-hop is not all '2 Chainz' - although '2 Chainz' is awesome. How he does that with metaphors, I don't know. "

" They say every five years the atoms in your body become a new set of atoms. "

" I think prejudice has gotten to a point where a lot of people hold biases in their mind and don't even realize that they're doing it, because it's deeply ingrained in the fabric of what it means to be an American. "

" I'm from Victorville - it's about an hour-and-a-half away from Los Angeles, up in the desert. They call it Victimville because it's kind of violent. It's a beautiful place, though. It's quiet. "

" I feel like with every performance that I see, I get better because I've always thought - while I'm watching people perform - of what I would do. "

" I'm influenced a lot by my family. I have a big family. "

" That was like my safe place with great teachers where everyone could let down their guard and not feel judged. As soon as we walk outside, it was like, 'Look at these weird drama club kids.' But we all had our own agreement that we were cool in our own way. "

" Have you ever heard of 'Guess Who's Coming to Dinner?' I would like to play Sidney Poitier's role - I love that role. "

" I've always been super expressive, and I've always liked to express myself any way I can. "

" I wanted to be as genuine as possible because all those people like Jimmie Lee Jackson - me, Mike Brown, all these people - we're all the same; we're not much different. "

" I always knew I'd be an actor. I always knew I'd at least be on a big screen somewhere. "

" I'm a little baby in a barrel just taking everything in. I'm just so fortunate to do whatever I'm doing. "

" Although rap is about boasting, it's also about honesty and expressing your emotions. "

" I've done music since I would sit and make songs on my computer mic when I was 11. "

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" My two little twin brothers have autism, so I grew up around it and misunderstood it for a long time. "

" We used to do sock puppet shows for my auntie back in the day. Me and my friends would do accents of Englishmen, and we would sip tea and act like we were rich in front of the family, and they thought it was just hilarious, the level of perception that we had about things that we'd never experienced. "

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" My producer, HH, makes sounds, so I'm writing to his beats. "

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" I grew up very poor in a fractured family that was dysfunctional on both sides, but I sort of put up these reflectors to most of the negative things that have occurred in my life. I don't carry around much baggage. "

" Music is something I do full-time in real life. I was doing music long before I was even thinking about acting. "