Here's the thing about earnestness. Our culture discounts it; but people are yearning for it.

Brick walls are there for a reason. They give us a chance to show how badly we want

Some of these people need ten years of therapy - ten sentences of mine do not equal ten years of therapy.

The most-praised generation goes to work

Because I have no actual sisters, it is my friends from Ames who’ve exposed me to every facet of womanhood.

Here's what we'll do. We're going to keep you at the end of our fishing line. And if you ever need anything, you just give a little tug and we'll reel you back in.

Think independently and critically, but never forget to think with understanding and love.

Carolina beach music, " Dupree said, coming up on the porch. "The holiest sound on earth.

Denzel Washington's career is an enormous luxury. Compare him to Wesley Snipes.

I would not be happy to do what I do unless I felt that the large audience wanted it.

You have a 45mm automatic pistol on your lap, and I have a 35mm camera on my lap, and my weapon is just as powerful as yours. (To Black Panther militant Eldridge Cleaver)

Forgiveness is the best charity. (It is easy to give the poor money and goods when one has plenty, but to forgive is hard; but it is the best thing if one can do it.)

It may seem difficult at first, but everything is difficult at first.

You could sometimes see her twelfth year in her cheeks, or her ninth sparkling from her eyes; and even her fifth would flit over the curves of her mouth now and then.

It is so easy to be wrong-and to persist in being wrong-when the costs of being wrong are paid by others.

We talked about politics constantly in my family growing up in North Carolina. There were always debates. Being of Greek background, it's in our blood to drink coffee and talk politics.