Terrence Howard

But, you know, I sometimes disrespect myself.

I sometimes don't respect people's privacy.

So I try my hardest not to get caught up in gossip about somebody else all the time.

I'm learning.

These are my own rules that if I can live by them, my children can live by them.

Well, my father, I mean, I was incorrigible.

I was indomitable as a child.

So you tell me to do something, I'm going to do it just because you told me not to do it.

You don't have authority over me.

So I got whooped every day by my father.

So I told myself when I have my children, I'm not going to whoop them.

I'm not going to use corporal punishment on them.

I'm not going to do any of that.

But that's not what I ended up doing because you start talking to them about

a thousand times and they don't listen.

And then immediately you go back to the slave days and you're like, well, let me go get the whip.

Let me go get the belt.

Let me do all of this other stuff you're not supposed to do.

But you find yourself still back into those places and you have to catch yourself, especially with the laws that's out here today.

So now, because I got the