Any time you can have your logo or your name on a shoe, growing up that's a dream come true.
I just want to do as much as I can while I can, because none of us are promised anything.
We're not products of our environments, we're products of our expectations.
Do you think that we're products of our environments? I think so, or maybe products of our expectations. Others' expectations of us or our expectations. I mean others' expectations that you take on as your own. I realize how difficult it is to seperate the two. The expectations that others place on us help us form our expectations of ourselves.
The young men in our city are not problems to be solved. They are opportunities to be unleashed.
When it is time for you to leave this school, leave your job, or even leave this earth, you make sure you have worked hard to make sure it mattered you were even here.
I began at some point to understand the whole idea of accountability and responsibility and leadership, and I think that was something that really birthed something in me, where I knew I wanted to be part of a larger equation in our society.
The conflict is not between Christianity and Islam or between East and West - instead, it is between stupid people and other stupid people.
My ex-girl told me, "I love you so much, and I know it's just a phase you're going through. " When a woman comes at you like that, you look at her as being so mature because she understands if I'm cheating, it's not her problem, it's mine. When a man cheats, it's not a reflection of what she's not.
Be very, very careful what you put into that head of yours, because you will never, ever get it out.
I'm not opinionated; you're just wrong. -Bucky