It was like the beginning of life and laughter. It was the real meaning of the sun

That was all a man needed: hope. It was lack of hope that discouraged a man.

People don't need love. What they need is success in one form or another. It can be love but it needn't be.

I´ve given you my time. Its all I´ve got to give - its all any man has. And for a pitiful buck and a quarter an hour.

I don't know why we are here, but I'm pretty sure that it is not in order to enjoy ourselves.

Hope is a little candle that continues to flicker in the heart in the darkest moments of impossibility.

No one explains this to you, he thought. That there are so many things without solution.

You cannot help the poor by destroying the rich. You cannot lift the wage earner by pulling down the wage payer.

When three persons work together, each can be the teacher in some aspects

A guy isn't the only thing that will make me happy. If I never find romance or love, that will be okay. It's what I want, but it doesn't define me.

Oh I'm in love with the janitor's boy, And the janitor's boy loves me; He's going to hunt for a desert isle In our geography.

I grew up listening to Commission, Kirk Franklin and Hezekiah Walker. If I was found listening to any rap, my pops would throw them out, or crush the CDs and tapes - literally.

What a dog I got. Last night he went on the paper four times - three while I was reading it.

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