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"The most aggressive views governing this country speak a lot about inclusion. We still have some people in this country who don't really get that we all have the same agenda, aspirations, hopes, and fears. I want people to be free and to be able to express themselves, to find the best ways to say things so that people can digest them."
"I feel the choices our president Barack Obama is making now are safer and better."
"You have to be present, awake and happy now."
"The soundtrack in the poetry is the soundtrack from your own heartbeat."
"I don't miss a day of yoga. I don't miss my meditation... They're way more important."
"There is no religious or any kind of a gender that should separate you from any religious ideas."
"There is a subject - there is a research that says a man thinks about sex every 12 seconds. And so when an artist expresses something that's sexual in music it is a reflection of our reality. If we want that reality changed, then we have to do things that affect the core."
"I think that's what made rap such a stable footprint in culture, that it's so honest."
"That was never my intention to compete with the Oscars."
"I mean people are sexist and racist and homophobic and violent. But I don't think of the rappers as being any more sexist or racist or homophobic than their parents. Certainly less, in all those cases, less homophobic or racist or sexist, and then less gangster than our government. It's stuff that people normally don't speak on, subjects they don't speak on, and ideas they kind of keep to themselves."
"I applaud what the Oscars are doing to promote diversity. I think it's great."
"I think Hollywood is incredibly segregated. I've never seen any place like it."
"The emotional attachment you get with a client or the music fan allows you access to do a lot of things."
"Coming out of my first yoga class, I was astonished that there were nothing but hot girls there. Just 55 girls, Bobby Shriver, who's a buddy of mine, and myself. I came out of class, I was so high. I been sober 26 years, but I'm an ex-druggie."
"You don't expect a 94-year-old white guy to pick "Dope," which was an awesome movie not even close to being considered by the Academy. And that's what it's all about, like, promoting people who might not otherwise get promoted and celebrating people who might not get celebrated."
"I would never condone violence against women in any form, and for all of those I offended, I am sincerely sorry."
"You can't jump to vegan if you're not. Some people are absolute. Some people are able to be gradual."
"Cruelty is cruelty, whether it's cruelty to children, to the elderly, to dogs and cats, or to chickens."
"The best defense for any group of people is what we do to defend other people."
"I'm really not an angry vegan, but human beings are f***ing rude."