Sir Mix-a-Lot Quotes

I look at the careers of people I'm standing on the shoulders of. People like Lena Horne, Ella Fitzgerald, Sammy Davis Jr., and Sarah Vaughan. These are icons I wanted to emulate, and I feel like they've been holding me up for quite a long time.

To know that someone decades later is still just as impactful as they were when they were alive, we need pioneers like that.

I believe that one of the reasons I get to play golf all over the world is because of the barriers that Lee Elder broke down. I just think he's amazing.

There's something nice about being part of a trailblazing group. It's hard to look at myself that way because I look at Lisa Leslie and Sheryl Swoops and Rebecca Lobo and Dawn Staley in that way.

You look at the pioneers that have paved the way for players like myself. Sometimes, you just sit back and scratch your head.

The trailblazers are my role models in this industry: Sidney Poitier, Harry Belafonte, James Earl Jones, and Billy Dee Williams. I keep their pictures in my trailer and try to measure to their standards every time I act.

As an African American actress, there are people who have been staples in my life that opened a door that I can walk through. I hope that I can have that impact.

It's a pretty cool feeling to be the person to knock down a barrier - just like the Williams sisters did in tennis or Tiger Woods in golf.

I mean I certainly tell the Maria Goeppert-Mayer story and I'm happy that life isn't like that. I'm glad there were trailblazers like her and Marie Curie.

During our formative years, it was all about, 'What did Metallica do?' and 'How do we do that?' and then you try and find an identity of your own, but they're still... They were the pioneers and the trailblazers.

Every generation has to have its heroes.

Spike Lee's been doing it for a long time now. We're all standing on his shoulders.

They who set an example make a highway. Others follow the example, because it is easier to travel on a highway than over untrodden grounds.

Great men are the modelers, patterns, and in a wide sense creators, of whatsoever the general mass of men contrived to do and attain.

I stand on the shoulders of heroines who never sought public acclaim but served as inspirations to the generations that came after them.

Little girls and little boys need to have role models to look up to and know that, 'I'm not the first one. I'm not having to do this for the first time ever. Others have blazed the trail before me, and I can follow in their footsteps and do the same thing.'

A lot of people say Michael Jordan and all of that. But Magic Johnson and my dad were my role models.

A guy like James Brown has walked the walk, talked the talk. I can't disrespect James Brown in any kind of way. In my household, the adults tell you where to get off at.

I've not just played for England. I've done it for all the black players out there - to prove that they can do it.

My African-American friends thought it was cool that I was racing. It's not like we had any role models out there to look up to, so everyone understood I was doing something very different.

Education is the tool. Even if we haven't directly instructed a session, I think Wu-Tang has been an instructor of education to anyone who has been a fan, anyone who has supported our movement, whether its been from buying a Wu-Tang CD or coming to see a show.

We've influenced other artists, and when younger generations become fans of those artists and hear about us, they discover our music too.

I'd love to be a role model for black kids, whether they play hockey or not.

You tend to put your rock stars on pedestals - they seem like they've been there for time immemorial. But you realize that the rock stars have their own rock stars. They were fans and kids once, too.

I look up to people like Michael Jackson because he set up pop culture.