“If you live in a good neighborhood, you drive home and there's a bank. There's grocery stores and big houses - but no motels. What that tells you psychologically is you protect your money and buy good things for your family to eat in your nice big house.”
Family
“I was born and raised in East Los Angeles by a single mom who had three biological kids and adopted four more. I never met my dad.”
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“I like all the families in the U.K. But what I like about the idea of the royal family is... they seem like they're well educated and there's something admirable about them. And the Queen... she reminds me of my grandma.”
Family“There are five issues that make a fist of a hand that can knock America out cold. They're lack of jobs, obesity, diabetes, homelessness, and lack of good education.”
Education“Most of these people who are celebrities now don't do anything to deserve it, so by that fact alone, I don't want to be one.”
Alone“Romantic love is painful.”
Romantic“If Apple's a technology company in the music industry, why can't somebody in the music industry make technology?”
Technology“We all rely on technology to communicate, to survive, to do our banking, to shop, to get informed, but none of us knows how to read and write the code.”
Technology“Philanthropy is the thing that I am really excited about, and having success means I can do more.”
Success“As we develop and get quicker with technology in America, it's like we're downgrading if you look at the investment in education... that's the thing that worries me.”
Education“I was born and raised in East Los Angeles by a single mom who had three biological kids and adopted four more. I never met my dad.”
Dad“When I got into junior high school, that's when my mom let me dress how I wanted to dress. Up to that point I wore suits to school all the time.”
Mom“I don't like politics.”
Politics“Politics are about preserving relationships at the end of the day, and it has nothing to do with the greater good for humanity. It's just all about business.”
Business“Disco is the first technology music. And what I mean is that 'disco' music is named after discs, because when technology grew to where they didn't need a band in the clubs, the DJ played it on a disc.”
Technology“You can get your money and you put it in the bank, or you can put it in the youth. You can put it in our future.”
Future“You can rule ignorance you can manipulate the illiterate you can do whatever you want when a people are uneducated, so that goes in line with corrupt business and corrupt politics.”
Business“If you live in a ghetto and really want not to just change your life and your family's life but change your ghetto's life, make your ghetto a good neighbourhood, learn science try to be like Mark Zuckerberg, Bill Gates and Steve Jobs.”
Family“If you really want change, you really want it to be inclusive, where everyone's included, otherwise you're just going to have more of the same in the future.”
Future“My mom's discipline worked out perfectly. I wouldn't change a thing.”
Mom“Not many people give you a vision of what the future will bring.”
Future