I never believed in Santa Claus because I knew no white dude would come into my neighborhood after dark.

Love is man's natural endowment, but he doesn't know how to use it. He refuses to recognize the power of love because of his love of power.

If all you can do is judge a person by their appearance, because you don't have the spirit to judge someone from within, you're in trouble.

The most difficult thing to get people to do is to accept the obvious.

One of the things I keep learning is that the secret of being happy is doing things for other people.

Education means to bring out wisdom. Indoctrination means to push in knowledge.

Fear and God do not occupy the same space.

I never learned hate at home, or shame. I had to go to school for that.

When I tune into my beautiful self, I get happiness. Everything in the universe belongs to me.

I am really enjoying the new Martin Luther King Jr stamp - just think about all those white bigots, licking the backside of a black man.

Poor is a state of mind you never grow out of, but being broke is just a temporary condition.

sometime life is full of joy, and sometime life is full of pain and tears but we have to defeat it

If you follow your passion, the world will follow yours…

My heart was in a perpetual state of sadness and the only relief I could find were in those cathartic cries. I lived a fragile existence.

Things do not change we change.

Everybody knows I have the ratchetest booty tattoo of an ex-boyfriend.

You've only got 12 notes and however you mix them up is your thing.

Most people love you for who you pretend to be.

I'm legally unable to ride motorcycles. It's a contract that I have with my life insurance, so whenever I get a chance to do a movie and ride a bike I go for it.

I feel that the single-minded pursuit of wealth has led the middle classes into a crisis.

When I read good stories, I want to write good stories too.