I don't want to age myself.
This ain't fun. But you watch me, I'll get it done.
A life is not important except in the impact it has on other lives.
I'm not concerned with your liking or disliking me. . . All I ask is that you respect me as a human being.
Life is not a spectator sport. If you're going to spend your whole life in the grandstand just watching what goes on, in my opinion you're wasting your life.
I had to fight hard against loneliness, abuse, and the knowledge that any mistakes I made would be magnified because I was the only black man out there. . . I never cared about acceptance as much as I cared about respect.
The most luxurious possession, the richest treasure anybody has, is his personal dignity.
Peacekeeping works in some situations, but it very often needs other ingredients. Peacekeeping is not the aspirin of international security.
I wouldn't just come home from school and watch TV everyday, they had me involved in lots of local theatre. I was a very dramatic, talkative child. And that was part of my mother's creative solution - to put me in workshops and classes and children's theatre programmes.
We [ The Kansas]'re somewhat hard-pressed at this time to imagine any bands that'll be around 40 years from now (and that's our personal opinion).
If saying that religion should be a private matter and should not have special influence in public life is illiberal, then 74% of U. K. Christians are illiberal, too.