It was a strike against me that I didn't wear baggy jeans and jerseys and that I never hustled, never sold drugs.

Black people can be the most conservative, the most discriminating. Especially among ourselves. It wasn't white people who said all black men have to wear baggy jeans.

Yeah, baggy jeans are done. Nobody wants to wear big, baggy jeans. Baggy jeans are completely over with.

Our work is never over.

I know I got angels watchin me from the other side.

I would never want a book's autograph. I am a proud non-reader of books.