As African-Americans, we often spend our time and energy blaming other people for the problems we see around us.
Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars.
And ever has it been known that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation.
One day you will ask me which is more important? My life or yours? I will say mine and you will walk away not knowing that you are my life.
I deserted the world and sought solitude because I became tired of rendering courtesy to those multitudes who believe that humility is a sort of weakness, and mercy a kind of cowardice, and snobbery a form of strength.
To understand the heart and mind of a person, look not at what he has already achieved, but at what he aspires to.
How beautiful to find a heart that loves you, without asking you for anything, but to be okay.
Physical attraction was about aesthetics, not sexual performance, not mental stimulation. Without a mental connection, a remarkable sexual performance yielded no lifelong guarantees. It was only lust. And lust was not love.
Now I don't want to feel cornered as an actor, because I've got a wider range than that.
We live on two levels. . . the realistic level and the fantastic level, and which is the real one, really?
There are, then, three states of mind. . . two vices--that of excess, and that of defect; and one virtue--the mean; and all these are in a certain sense opposed to one another; for the extremes are not only opposed to the mean, but also to one another; and the mean is opposed to the extremes.