History never exactly repeats itself, but it does some rather good impressions.
It isn't a matter of black is beautiful as much as it is white is not all that's beautiful.
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 think if you've been given something in life you have a moral duty to give things back.
I'll see a beautiful girl walking up to me and I'll think, Oh, my God, I can't believe my good luck. But then she'll say, 'Where's your son?' or 'My mother loves you'.
I look like the kind of guy who has a bottle of beer in my hand.
If people are concerned about my house and where I live again it's much more of a reflection on them than it is on me.