Whatever else people knew about Donald Trump going into 2016, it was obvious he was strong. He said what he thought, no matter who it offended.
When I went into film, it never occurred to me that I wouldn't be able to do whatever I wanted to do. Maybe that was a good thing in the beginning. I had blinders on, and I charged forward.
I felt like an extraordinary hero. I was only five or six and I had the whole of life in my hands. Even if I had been driving the carriage of the sun I could not have felt any better.
They can't censor the gleam in my eye.
I'm unashamed in my faith, and I'm okay with that.
I've said some things that are a little bit off the wall, but I don't run away and hide from them.
Jungle Kitty is one of the colors of my persona that allows me to be free, allows to be untamed, allows me to have fun and let loose and be ferocious, raw, unapologetic, and carefree.
The best place for me is in my car, listening to my stereo. I am 'Mr. Karaoke Guy' in the car, completely. I just go with it and don't care what anyone else thinks - I'm singing, man!
These carefree young Americans were freedom incarnate: our own and also the freedom that was about to spread – we had no doubts on this score – throughout world.
Joan Collins was the best. She really could sort of pull it off, be really outrageous and never even flinch.
What great thing would you attempt if you knew you could not fail?
Some people say I'm conscious, some say I'm a gangsta rapper - it's just me doing me. I'm stomping in my own lane. I'm doing what I do.
I don't think I'm unusual in that, in my 20s, like many people, I felt invincible.
The most irresistible charm of youth is its bubbling enthusiasm. Youth sees no darkness ahead - no defile that has no outlet - it forgets that there is such a thing as failure in the world and believes that mankind has been waiting all these centuries for him to come and be the liberator of truth and energy and beauty.
I remember the first time that my Nana introduced me to Eartha Kitt. Seeing a fierce Black woman on screen being unapologetically confident - just her essence that she had was so captivating.
What I say is what I feel, whether anyone likes it or not.
I'm a black American, and I'm proud to represent who and where I'm from - unapologetically. There's no shame in my game.
Nothing shines out more than a bride in her most natural state.
By definition, I believe I am unapologetically optimistic and I am unapologetically earnest.
And rather than hide that, I would rather put that out on the radio and let someone see the full range of emotions. If you're going to be strong on the radio, you got to let it all out, even the ugly stuff. And you can't apologize for it.
I don't care what people say. My music's, my music.
I like to play characters that have an inner confidence about them that maybe you wouldn't expect them to have and that they aren't afraid to unleash occasionally.
We did not lack modesty—on the contrary—but something urgently drove us to defy modesty together as immodestly as possible.
I never had a plan B; I would walk around with my head up in the clouds like, 'I'm going to be a famous singer/rapper person one day.'
I'm pretty gloriously positive and naive in a way.
