Men and women alike, if you think that altering the tip of your nose with surgery will make you happier, I would suggest you alter something much more malleable than your flesh, like your priorities, or your friends.
I'm for economic independence.
I took Bobby Kennedy through the delta and he cried like a baby.
Speaking as a black person, welfare is the worst thing that's ever happened to us.
We need to take responsibility and educate people. That's why black folks don't like me. I always say it's our responsibility to make safe neighborhoods. It's our job to get them cleaned up.
Welfare makes you dependent upon someone to take care of you.
I believe welfare makes you lazy and unproductive.
Whatever you do in life, there's content and form; only those two put together create special meaning of a great work of art or great interpretation of music or a great story that you tell.
You know, I think I still have a sense that no matter what you do, no matter what you achieve, no matter how much success you have, no matter how much money you have, relationships are important.
If Paul McCartney tells me that so-and-so song is his favorite song, what do I care? What do I care what anybody else says?
I didn’t want people to decide what I was going to wear and what I was going to look like and how I should behave.