My male colleagues sometimes wonder if I understand as much about defense as I ought to. Of course if I agree with them, they think that I do.

There can be infinite uses of the computer and of new age technology, but if teachers themselves are not able to bring it into the classroom and make it work, then it fails.

How do you ever hold on to anybody?

What you can do, has nothing to do with your parents' last name! What you can do has nothing to do with the colour of your skin! What you can do is fully determined by God! It’s simple!

You have to try your best to have peace of mind, and whatever happens you know you did your best

A man's got to keep company a long time, and come early and stay late and sit close, before he can get a girl or a job worth having.

It's time for Black people to stop playing the separating game of geography, of where the slave ship put us down. We must concentrate on where the slave ship picked us up.

I will be 60 or 70 years old still rocking my Chanel blazer with my hair all coiffed.

I don't care if the girl is slim or fat, I just want the girl that makes me happy.

It is too late if we wait until the moment of temptation before making our decision.

I don't need drugs. I am drugs.

I just want to write. It's like once I get those obsessive thoughts out of my head, once they're written down, they're somehow set free and I can move on.