People are starting to understand the other side's perspective and that's where empathy can sort of begin - once you quit judging other people but just understand where they're coming from.

I try not to get too high off the highs or too low off the lows.

We've seen many Black men lose their life over the past couple of years. Not only just heard about it.

Dialect or the speech of the people is capable of expressing whatever the people are.

Just as important I believe, is Black America can look back at the show and say, "Wow, I think I now understand why a lot of white people were appalled at the acquittal of O.J. Simpson."

I'm pleased it turned out the way that it did, because I know lots of other people who did fantastic work and did not see this particular kind of recognition [like Emmy].

Empathy begins with understanding life from another person's perspective. Nobody has an objective experience of reality. It's all through our own individual prisms.

The first time I went on a serious run was when I was 21 years old at Stanford University. From 21 to 30, I continued the tradition and ran 10 miles every year on my birthday.

for Pop, who sees the starsand Jude, who hears their music

Writing is a form of running away. Running away to a place you made by your own hand.

I try to cherish the moments I have, for I dread the day I get out of the tub and the wrinkles won't go away...

My house feels like a proper home. It's very relaxed with a hippyish vibe.

I know God can cut it (popularity) off in a minute.

So he has no head' 'Thats usually what headless means' 'No head at all?' 'Your really not getting the whole headless thing are you?' 'Its just kind of silly even for us.

Money isn't everything as long as you have enough.

We are here because we are determined to offer the people of the Western Cape choices which are long overdue.

Skill in writing frees you to write what you want to write. It may also show you what you want to write. Craft enables art.

There is a fundamental error in separating the parts from the whole, the mistake of atomizing what should not be atomized. Unity and complementarity constitute reality.