If you really want change, you really want it to be inclusive, where everyone's included, otherwise you're just going to have more of the same in the future.

You can get your money and you put it in the bank, or you can put it in the youth. You can put it in our future.

If you live in a good neighborhood, you drive home and there's a bank. There's grocery stores and big houses - but no motels. What that tells you psychologically is you protect your money and buy good things for your family to eat in your nice big house.

I don't want to hope anymore. I don't think we should hope anymore. We hoped enough. Now we have to do. We all have to do now.

My mom's discipline worked out perfectly. I wouldn't change a thing.

My mom's never been married. I've never even seen my mom kiss a dude.

If you would ask my mom what books I liked growing up, I liked Dr. Seuss.

I was born and raised in East Los Angeles by a single mom who had three biological kids and adopted four more. I never met my dad.

When I got into junior high school, that's when my mom let me dress how I wanted to dress. Up to that point I wore suits to school all the time.

I remember when I was 11, I told my mom, 'One day I'm going to buy you a house.' And she said, 'Boy, don't you be making promises you can't keep.' I was like: 'No, Ma, it's not a promise. I'm going to buy you a house one day.'