No one but myself thought I could beat guys like Tommy Hearns or Roberto Duran
In the 1970s, for all the Stevie Wonders, I'm sure there were five artists that were making forgettable music.
We're so used to having everything we want at our fingertips so I think that when things get tough it's difficult for people to persist through that.
There are more black men incarcerated today than there were slaves in 1850.
The best training is to play by ear: trial by fire.
I listen to all those kinds of music, from classic soul to hip-hop to Brazilian music to, you know, jazz to indie to alternative. So whatever. I listen to all if it. Classic rock and classic pop, all of that.
We should care about what is going on in the world.
For centuries, epilepsy was the exact expectation of someone being possessed by the Devil. There was no better explanation, and it allows you to admit the existence of the Devil. If there's a Devil, that mean's there's a God.
America's story is largely an immigrant story. That hasn't changed since the Pilgrims ate their first turkey some four hundred years ago, and they were the original boat people.
Criticism, like rain, should be gentle enough to nourish a man's growth without destroying his roots.
Who, in the midst of just provocation to anger, instantly finds the fit word which settles all around him in silence is more than wise or just; he is, were he a beggar, of more than royal blood, he is of celestial descent.