A helluva athlete, the best ever to play his position in the history of the game.

The road to success and the road to failure are almost exactly the same.

I'm no longer accepting the things I cannot change...I'm changing the things I cannot accept.

Anybody can play. The note is only 20 percent. The attitude of the motherfucker who plays it is 80 percent.

You have to act as if it were possible to radically transform the world. And you have to do it all the time.

We live in a society of an imposed forgetfulness, a society that depends on public amnesia.

When children attend schools that place a greater value on discipline and security than on knowledge and intellectual development, they are attending prep schools for prison.

Walls turned sideways are bridges.

Justice is indivisible. You can't decide who gets civil rights and who doesn't.

We must always attempt to lift as we climb

The idea of freedom is inspiring. But what does it mean? If you are free in a political sense but have no food, what's that? The freedom to starve?

Positive madness leads to new knowledge.

For so many years, for so long, I have been so many things, so many different men. But here, " he said, so softly I could barely hear him, "here in the dark, with you… I have no name.

Books became her friends, and there was one for every mood.

My personal opinion is that you can't be racist towards white people. You can be prejudiced about them, but being prejudiced isn't an illegal act, whereas being racist can be.

It's not common for a woman on television, especially if she's the mom of the family, to be funny. She's usually a straight man or foil.

While the question of who killed President Kennedy is important, the question 'what killed him' is more important.

I'm taking a break from music... everyone was so mean about it and it was so hard that I wanted to die.

God gave me wisdom, but the devil's got style.

I would love to do films - ones that get seen.

Stay open and curious, and realize that the best is yet to come.