I didn't handle fame very well at first. I got a little resentful.
Stand tall and believe in yourself
Where I come from, you had to be original. You had to come up with your own little moves. It doesn't matter if it's a big move. It had to be a dope original concept.
A lot of people don't believe in what they are doing. They just want the crowd to scream for them.
I'm not gonna change my way of dance because I lost and the judge tells me I should do it a certain way.
That's what's gonna make me come up with new stuff, if you get a good break or a good beat, you get a certain energy, and you wanna release that energy. Freezes to me are like releasing a certain energy. That's me releasing energy that beat gives me, to come up with certain things. A good beat, a rare break, a dope song that I've never really breaked to before will give me a new feeling, a new movement.
A lot of it is mental - you have to not fear your opponent. That's the number one thing, first off. Don't underestimate anybody, but don't fear anybody.
What Washington needs is adult supervision.
I'll say that this is probably the best time for poetry since the T'ang dynasty. All the rest of the world is going to school on American poetry in the twentieth century, from Ezra Pound to W. S. Merwin, and for very good reason. We have soaked up influence in the last century like a sponge. It's cross-pollination, first law of biology, that the more variety you have the more health you have.
Israel and the Palestinians must resolve their own differences. The United States can play an important role as facilitator and guarantor.
Cinema is capitalism in its purest form. . . . There is only one solution - turn one's back on American cinema.