I don't like the term 'coming out' because it gives the power to the other person.

In our country, being from immigrant parents, growing up black in the South, coming out at 16 years old, being a teen parent... you would assume that my life would amount to nothing. And here I stand today. So, if I can do it... you can, too!

Historically, hip-hop is about a generation of artists rapping about the realities they see in their neighborhoods or the 'truths' they hear growing up in their homes.

Bangkok is one of those places where it's so rich and full of tradition, but they're so open to different people - different gender expressions and gender identities. As a gay man, I never once felt uncomfortable there. As a black man, I never once felt uncomfortable.

The only honest reaction and true loyalty we get is from our animals. Once they're your friends, you can do no wrong.

So much of politics is about people's relationships with themselves. You do better if you make people feel secure in who they are.

I don't trust that many people. Just my mother and my wife and a couple of friends. When I trust people, it doesn't end well.

I think that people have expectations of themselves and other people that are based on these fictions that are presented to them as the way human life and relationships could be, in some sort of weird, ideal world, but they never are. So you're constantly being shown this garbage and you can't get there.