The ability to read awoke inside of me some long dormant craving to be mentally alive.

One day, may we all meet together in the light of understanding.

Right now, in every big city ghetto, tens of thousands of yesterday's and today's school dropouts are keeping body and soul together by some form of hustling in the same way I did.

So early in my life, I had learned that if you want something, you had better make some noise.

I imagine that one of the biggest troubles with colleges is there are too many distractions, too much panty-raiding, fraternities, and boola-boola and all of that.

Never ask a woman about other men.Either she'll tell you a lie, and you still won't know, or if she tells you the truth, you might not have wanted to hear it in the first place.

He said, one time, that no true leader burdened his followers with a greater load than they could carry, and no true leader sets too fast a pace for his follows to keep up.

All of us - who might have probed space, or cured cancer, or built industries - were, instead, black victims of the white man's American social system.

Why am I as I am? To understand that of any person, his whole life, fromBirth must be reviewed. All of our experiences fuse into our personality. Everything that ever happened to us is an ingredient.

Always, every now and then, I had given her a hard time, just to keep her in line. Every once in a while a woman seems to need, in fact wants this too.

How is it possible to write one's autobiography in a world so fast-changing as this?

Telling a teenager the facts of life is like giving a fish a bath.

People are the nature of the city, and you can feel it in the pavement.

However naïve it sounds, or however inept the result, I think the idea is to try to alchemize the crap, not just mirror it all.

When you borrow money, you should always think how you're going to pay it back.

The emergence of a unified Europe is one of the most revolutionary events of our time.

Between the money and the illegal merchandise, Bones was getting millions. No wonder he laughed at my salary. -Cat

The worst thing about war was the sitting around and wondering what you were doing morally.

I feel relief about the Oscars. You know, you're not in this business for prizes but, okay, I missed one.

Texas has no system in place, and what you have is chaos.

When the heart is right, "for" and "against" are forgotten.