Quotes about "Mindfulness & Presence"

All the other rappers around me aren't saying anything worthwhile. They're lost in rap: all they do is tell you they're a sick MC and they're better than you. I don't want to look like all these other little punk, dress-up, fake, manufactured artists. I'm not a rapper. I'm an activist. ”

Everyone knows their wrong from right, so when people are being racist, they know they're being ignorant. ”

After touring so much, I was looking for some peace. I found Morocco, and it was perfect. Everything I wanted to feel about peace, I found it there. ”

It took a long time for hip-hop to become commercial. Now there's all these big black icons that came from nowhere to somewhere. Look at Jay-Z! People stopped being threatened by the music and just started to appreciate that it's good. ”

As an actor, you want to keep your demons to some extent, but you also have to exorcise them so you can use them instead of them using you. ”

Everyone's really lazy in L.A. ”

There's been a boiling down of real emotion into a set pattern instead of individualism. ”

Whatever labels are being pinned on me have nothing to do with me. ”

It is through this mysterious power that we too have our being, and we therefore yield to our neighbors, even to our animal neighbors, the same right as ourselves to inhabit this vast land. ”

Christmas Day we get all the dogs and the cats and make breakfast and open presents and then go to the backyard - because it is always like 100 degrees in L.A. - and we get a speaker and play fun '80s music and dance outside with all the animals. ”