When the OutKast sound changed and I started producing my own records, I would mirror what I thought that character doing that music would look like. As the sound got a…
With all respect, I’m sure that we have enough preachers in the world. Through my way of writing, I was capable of being able to say these things and yet not…
There’s this little box that African-American actors have to work in, in the first place, and I was able to rise above that box. I could have done a bunch of…
“The show doesn’t drive home a lesson, but it can open up people’s minds enough for them to see how stupid every kind of prejudice can be.” –Redd Foxx…
“I grew up in the ’50s, a tough time for African Americans. I had friends whose fathers would openly say, ‘Just bite your tongue, don’t cause any problems.’ My father was…
“To create something from nothing is one of the greatest feelings, and I would – I don’t know, I wish it upon everybody. It’s heaven.” –Prince Rogers Nelson…
“Without the rebellious heart, without people who understand that there’s no sacrifice we can make that is too great to retrieve that which we’ve lost, we will forever be distracted with…
