Belief in oneself and knowing who you are, I mean, that's the foundation for everything great.

Don't tell me what was said about me. Tell me why they were so comfortable to say it to you.

Remind yourself. Nobody built like you, you design yourself.

Everybody look at you strange, say you changed Like you work that hard to stay the same.

You not feeling me, fine. It costs you nothing, pay me no mind.

A wise man told me don't argue with fools. Cause people from a distance can't tell who is who.

Don't ever go with the flow. Be the flow.

I seen the worst of the worst. I deserve every blessing I receive I'm from the dirt.

You can pay for school, but you can't buy class

Everybody can tell you how to do it but they never done it

Identity is a prison you can never escape, but the way to redeem your past is not to run from it, but to try to understand it, and use it as a foundation to grow.

I planned my whole future around Adam, ' she said now, quietly. 'And now I have nothing.''No, ' I told her, 'now you just don't have Adam. There's a big difference, Lissa. You just can't see it yet.

Everything is dangerous to him that is afraid of it.

All people would really want peace and all would want to be sure that they would not be taken advantage of.

The biggest challenge is how you get money for independent films, in these ever-changing times when most people don't really want to invest in that anymore.

We'll start signing Negroes when the Harlem Globetrotters start signing whites.

A sneer is the weapon of the weak. Like other devil's weapons, it is always cunningly ready to our hand, and there is more poison in the handle than in the point.

If it had gone in, it would have been a goal.

Friends must always be treated as if one day they might be enemies.

We in the majority have worked hard to empower people to create opportunities, to make jobs, to do things that turn America into a place where people can achieve their dreams.

I have zero interest in these Capitol people. They are only distractions from the food.