If you're a black man, they really call you out and have you deal with them.

Don't believe everything you hear: Real eyes, Realize, Real lies

Life's a test, mistakes are lessons, but the gift of life is knowing that you have made a difference.

If you let a person talk long enough you'll hear their true intentions. Listen twice, speak once.

Trust me I never lose. Either I win or learn from it

God will judge my heart, Man will judge my actions.

Reality is wrong. Dreams are for real.

You never stop loving someone. You just learn to live without them.

My mama always used to tell me: 'If you can't find somethin' to live for, you best find somethin' to die for.'

Long live the rose that grew from the concrete when no one else ever cared!

I didn't choose the thug life, the thug life chose me.

She said that her job as a writer of fiction was to report on the human condition, to tel us who we are and what we think and what we do.

The more highly public life is organized the lower does its morality sink.

You can't change reality -- only its perception.

Fights don't solve matters, they just make things worse. (Diary 19)

Do you think that I am an old man? I could prove to this congregation that I am young; for I could find more girls who would choose me for a husband than can carry any of the young men.

I've had a lot of baptism by fire.

An actress always knows when she's hit it and mostly you haven't; but once or twice I think I hit it right, so maybe that's good enough for one life.

Nearly everything you do is of no importance, but it is important that you do it.

Sometimes it takes you awhile to get to it, but you always get there, and what you say is always worth waiting for.

After graduating in 1973 I went into the programming field.