Deposit insurance has proved to be the crack cocaine of American finance.

This is the twilight of the banks. It would be a more cheerful spectacle if we could envision the dawn of the institutions that will replace them

Except for the con men borrowing money they shouldn't get and the widows who have to visit with the handsome young men in the trust department, no sane person ever enjoyed visiting a bank.

People can be committed to a mental institution only after judicial hearing, but people are committed to schools beyond the reach of Habeas Corpus.

There is no knowing that does not begin with knowing God.

be determined with patience that's it.. game is yours..

A society where everyone is following his own unique path has a much better chance to find the truth than the society where everyone is following some known cliché paths!

It’s only when we are able to exceed our rigid interpretations, and we start defining love in it’s totality, that we realize that love is everywhere

Had middle class black women begun a movement in which they had labeled themselves "oppressed," no one would have taken them seriously.

Having felt people's love and support first hand through difficult moments in my life makes me feel it's our responsibility to help one another.

I've seen a lot of friends who have a lot of great projects, whether it's a script or a play or whatever, and it is a great project and they have great people involved, and they can't make it.

I would say I am very much more interested in ethics than in code/ morality. I think it's in this way that one avoids the conservatism inherent in "the moral".

I'm still James Johnson. Rick James is a stage name. James Johnson keeps Rick James on the ground... Kind of sort of.

The fun part for me is to just really push that envelope.