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“Real men know how to move as real men. Real men won't allow themselves to be disrespected. Real men aren't punks.”
“Best way to measure your passion is simply asking would you do it for free? If money is your motivation, then it's not really your passion.”
“The thing with racism is it's rare you can really prove racism.”
“I don't mind have an uncomfortable conversation if those uncomfortable conversations can lead to a bigger dialogue and help us get to a better understanding of whatever it is we are discussing.”
“There's nothing that makes me feel better than being on these mainstream shows, whether it's 'The View,' 'Colbert' or whatever, and saying, 'It's a privilege to be black.' Oh, I love that.”
“If you're family to me, you're gonna always be family to me.”
“My thoughts on Eminem have always been that he is one of the greatest lyricists ever. I've never been a fan because I can't relate to a lot of his world views and experiences, but I acknowledge that he's one of the greatest MCs.”
“I don't want any of my sisters to be like Tomi Lahren. You all are smarter, sharper, more articulate, brilliant, so why would I want y'all to be like her?”
“I'm a Remy Martin guy. I like Remy and Coke, and I like the white Remy V with pineapple. I'm an equal-opportunity Remy drinker.”
“My father, Larry McKelvey, he was the man in Moncks Corner. He ran illegal nightclubs where everyone went, ran around in red leather pants, claimed he partied with Rick James. If you needed anything in Moncks Corner, you saw Larry McKelvey.”
“Self-help is something that I've always been into. I thought I was going to be a psychiatrist.”
“One day, I got beat up, and my glasses, which were crooked already, got shattered on the ground. That's when I said, 'Okay, enough.' I became like Batman. I decided to thug myself out, all the way.”
“We're special because God created us, and that goes for any race.”
“Kanye is always going to be Kanye. He is always going to be outspoken. He's always going to say exactly how he feels.”
“God gave you the privilege of this thing called life, so regardless of what this society tells you that you can't do and what you don't have to, understand you lack nothing. God gave you everything you need to succeed.”
“You have to empower yourself.”
“I think, in a lot of ways, Kanye's superpower is his weakness - if you tell him he can't do something, he's going to go hard at it.”
“Me and Kanye have a relationship - not as close as him and Trump, but we have a relationship.”
“America used to say that hip-hop was a cancer. Then it embraced that cancer and realized, 'Hey, this isn't a bad thing. It is part of us, just more America.'”
“One thing I'm not doing in my older age is explaining myself to culturally clueless white people.”