It seems to me that any law that is not enforced and can't be enforced weakens all other laws.
I wasn't always black. . . there was this freckle, and it got bigger and bigger.
When I say, I don't care what white people think, I mean that.
Family is conflict and it's something that we all relate to.
If you know two languages, the level of your intelligence is multiplied a hundredfold in other people's eyes.
A word to the wise ain't necessary - it's the stupid ones that need the advice.
In spite of the six thousand manuals on child raising in the bookstores, child raising is still a dark continent and no one really knows anything. You just need a lot of love and luck - and, of course, courage.
I'm not particularly interested in playing characters that think the way I do.
If you help one person in the room, you're an abject failure. You have to change something.
Normally I don't feel like having a belly full of pasta.
I have sat in the dark and looked at them both, the child and the woman. And the feeling has become too much. It is not sorrow or joy; it is the weight and the pressure of having been brought into their lives, and of knowing that if one were ever to be separated from them, it would mean your obliteration.