You want to live in a world where someone is good or bad. Where you either hate them or love them. But that's not how people are.

Relationships are built in the silences.

Learn from your past and be better because of your past, but don't cry about your past. Life is full of pain. Let the pain sharpen you, but don't hold on to it. Don't be bitter.

We tell people to follow their dreams, but you can only dream of what you can imagine, and, depending on where you come from, your imagination can be quite limited.

It didn't matter that there was a war on our doorstep. She had things to do, places to be.

That was my mom. Don't fight the system. Mock the system.

But regret is the thing we should fear most. Failure is an answer. Rejection is an answer. Regret is an eternal question you will never have the answer to.

The tricky thing about the hood is that you’re always working, working, working, and you feel like something’s happening, but really nothing’s happening at all.

The world has been taught to be scared of him, but the reality is that he is scared of the world because he has none of the tools necessary to cope with it.

In society, we do horrible things to one another because we don’t see the person it affects. We don’t see their face. We don’t see them as people.

In any society built on institutionalized racism, race-mixing doesn't merely challenge the system as unjust, it reveals the system as unsustainable and incoherent.

A bold attitude is what true leaders use to crash down failure before they venture with their visions!

Whenever I'm with my [teenager] I feel as though I have to spend the whole time avoiding land mines.

Bernard Shaw remains the only model we have of what the citizen of a democracy should be: an informed participant in all things we deem important to the society and the individual.

It is said that in some countries trees will grow, but will bear no fruit because there is no winter there.

I'm very proud of what my parents achieved and what they stood for. They didn't have much, but in many ways they were richer than most.

It ought to have gangsters, and aeroplanes and a lot of automatic pistols.

Socialism never took root in America because the poor see themselves not as an exploited proletariat but as temporarily embarrassed millionaires.

I want them poor and they deserve to be poor. You can't have capitalism without punishment.

It's human nature - we want to believe our children, our families, our President!

I would rather sing about my love affair or about a woman or to a woman than some guys any day.