One does not need to be in any cosmetic relationship.

No power is strong enough to be lasting if it labors under the weight of fear.

Remember your dreams and fight for them. You must know what you want from life. There is just one thing that makes your dream become impossible: the fear of failure.

A society without intellectuals is like a body without a head

Trust me, Yorkies leave paw prints on your heart.

I resisted the film business as long as I could, because of the big circus act and the amount of money that it costs to make films - I saw my father suffer through that.

We have to work with the police. We have to make sure they respect the communities and the communities respect them.

You have to trust yourself.

But if writing about people who are not yourself is illegitimate, then the only legitimate work is autobiography; and as a reader and a citizen, I don’t want to live in that world.

many tender, delicate mothers, seem to think that to make their children eat, is all that is requisite to make them great.

When you construct a mix tape, the first song you come out with has to be a barnburner.