I really want people to understand that nobody is perfect and that things happen in life beyond our control.

I'm sayin', why spend mine when I can spend yours?

I respect everybody, but at the same time, I carry myself with an aura that demands respect, too.

Life's a wheel of fortune and y'all can't buy a vowel.

Cruise the diamond district with my biscuit.

Take a journey to the realm of the truth.

I'm human, you're human. So they said, but inside we're all animals.

These devils find a way to get at'cha. All it takes is some green and your face on the screen.

The party don't stop, til the casket drop.

I love to reinvent myself, and that's because I am a very free person. I do what I feel, and I love who I am.

There are some people who still don't understand. But I know by the end of my fulfillment they will.

Act like you care. Pray like you care. Speak, smile, reach out, and live like you care.  The point is to make sure those in your life know beyond doubt that you do care.

I can only be me.

When you write for children, don't write for children. Write from the child in you.

We can not fight for our rights and our history as well as future until we are armed with weapons of criticism and dedicated consciousness.

The more a person indulges himself the less others are willing to indulge him.

No longer riding on the merry-go-round, I just had to let it go.

I don't use composers. I research music the way I research the photographs or the facts in my scripts.

It is impossible for a man to be a Christian without having Christ; and if he has Christ he has at the same time all that is in Christ.

This message (that attempting to beat the market is futile) can never be sold on Wall Street because it is in effect telling stock analysts to drop dead.

It is comfort to the believer that all things are possible.