Who told you to step on my sneakers? Who told you to walk on my side of the block? Who told you to be in my neighborhood?

I came from a divorced mother and father, obviously mixed race.

To be a character actor is to be open, to be a chameleon.

I have from time to time been a double A or triple A personality. I'm not anymore. I'm more lenient on myself.

I love the smell of fried chicken.

I try to be careful with my persuasiveness. When my heart is really behind it, and when I have no ulterior motive, then I know I’m truly persuasive.

I have this vision that I'm really watching each one of my daughters start to become women, and mothers. And this is what's gonna save our planet.

Middle-class people are becoming desperate. It can cause a moral man to break bad.

You can never lead unless you follow.

There is a price to pay for most of our actions. For every action, there is a reaction.

I always wanted to be a boy scout but was too poor. Couldn't do it.

Take control of your future by taking a choice of starting it right now.

Just imagine what you are losing just because you are not reading!

Tell The Truth, and Shame The Devil.

I tend the wounded, /and in the tending, wound./Sometimes truly seeing another/is lethal./Loving fully, a bayonet.

Inferior thinking and writing will make a name for a man among inferior people, who in all ages and countries, are the majority.

I feel that the internal worlds of women are not that well represented by society. It is not an immediate thing people think about - the imagination of women or women's philosophy.

If there's one thing Gus Uhlenbeek's got, it's pace and determination.

Labor's face is wrinkled with the wind, and swarthy with the sun.

Few moments are more pleasing than those in which the mind is concerting measures for a new undertaking.

When I was 17, I read a profile of Carol Leifer. Since then, I wanted to be her. I still want to be her.