"You make knowledge relevant to life and you make it important for children to learn things that will really relate to things going on in their lives, and not abstract."

"Skip the religion and politics, head straight to the compassion. Everything else is a distraction."

"You know, I've learned a lot from every person I've collaborated with, from Madlib to Jean Grae and Hi-Tek, to Mos to DJ Quik, to even somebody like Jermaine Dupri. I've taken something important away from every experience."

"I think once you're in the public eye, whether you're a boss, a teacher or whatever you do, that you're automatically in the position of role model. You have people looking up to you, so whether you choose to accept it or not is a different question."

"That's why people listen to music or look at paintings. To get in touch with that wholeness."

"Wushu is a move in Chinese, a physical move. An attack. Wushu is like an art."

"There's room for the Gap, but the joy of dressing is an art."

"The human foot is a masterpiece of engineering and a work of art."