"I'm a rebel. I've always been a rebel. And I'm always going to be a rebel."

"I don't need no white man to tell me what to do. I don't need no black man to tell me what to do. I need God to tell me what to do."

"I had to learn how to be a man, and the way I learned how to be a man was to learn how to be a black man. And that's a hard thing to do in America."

"Money won't change you, but time will take you out."

"The worse it gets, the harder I try."