"Malcolm X is a person who has inspired - he has been the muse of several generations of black cultural workers, artists, poets, playwrights."

“I study myself more than any other subject. That is my metaphysics, that is my physics.”

“To me, trying to achieve the balance is when you become good: when you have enough technique to be able to play what is that you want, but also when you can refine what you want to communicate to people. As a younger person, it wasn't something I thought about so much.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

“The right to private judgment is the crown jewel of humanity, and for any person or institution to dare to come between the soul and God is a blasphemous impertinence and a defamation of the crown rights of the Son of God.”

“The making of art is a profoundly social activity, even if it’s one-on-one with some sort of ideal reader who doesn’t exist.”

“History does not merely touch on language, but takes place in it.”

“Being holy . . . does not mean being perfect but being whole; it does not mean being exceptionally religious or being religious at all; it means being liberated from religiosity and religious pietism of any sort; it does not mean being morally better, it meas being exemplary; it does not mean being godly, but rather being truly human.”

“I dreamed of doing stuff like Will Smith and films on a big scale.”

Source : "Battle: Los Angeles/ Cory Hardrict Interview". Interview with Wilson Morales, www.blackfilm.com. March 7, 2011.

“Nobody understands me, I'm really sensitive.”

Source : "Iggy's Trail of Destruction". Rolling Stone Interview, November 19, 2003.