It is the easiest thing in the world to go to astray, but always difficult to return.
How do you nurture a positive attitude when all the statistics say you're a dead man? You go to work.
Talent deserves to be honored. Hands deserve to be slapped if you do something stupid as well, but don't take it too far.
My indigestion issues got gigantic and constant. And then I started thinking, I'm getting skinny. I dropped about 20 pounds in the blink of an eye. And then when you see it in the mirror, when all of a sudden, you pull your eyes down and the bottom of your eyes go yellow and jaundice sets in - then you know something's wrong.
I had a lot of anger because I wasn't happy with the way I had been raised.
I will go so far as to say probably smoking had something to do with my pancreatic cancer.
Sometimes a movie encapsulates a period or a moment in all of our lives in such a way that it never dies.
Ralph Bunche, who is an internationally recognized and respected diplomat, can't stay in a hotel in Georgia, which means that no matter what the accomplishment, the intellectual, the academic, or professional level of a negro is, collectively he stands condemned.
Ever try to hold a butterfly? It can't be done. You damage them," he said. 'As gentle as you try to be, you take the powder from their wings and they won't ever fly the same. It's kinder to let them go.
By the time ordinary life asserted itself once more, I would feel I had already lived for a while in some other lifetime, that I had even taken over someone else's life.
Politics is show business for ugly people.