You will not become dependent on the people you love. You will share - and sharing is beautiful.
In life we try to grow and better ourselves. As an artist, I feel like I've grown tremendously.
Seven out of 10 Americans are one paycheck away from being homeless.
There's a harsh reality - nothing lasts forever. You have to be ready to grow, and grow fast.
I didn't want to do the whole, get the hottest person thing. I wanted to make sure every record felt right.
I think there's always room for people to hear different styles of music, especially when it comes from the heart.
People in the record business would say, Well, Pras, you know, you haven't been out in a while, maybe you should get today's hottest producer or rapper to do something.
The Roosevelt enactment of Social Security was a moral revolution in our country: We were assured that we would never reach the very depths of poverty. And to be told, that we are now going to gamble it, on Wall Street, is nonsense!
I also have a pair of ruby red slippers from the 'Wizard of Oz' and Dorothy's gingham dress. . . and on and on. I saved as much as I could and still do, because people are still interested in it.
Our choice, always, is to love and understand.
The world's most 'primitive' people have few possessions, but they are not poor. Poverty is not a certain small amount of goods, nor is it just a relation between means and ends; above all it is a relation between people. Poverty is a social status. As such it is the invention of civilization. It has grown with civilization, at once as an invidious distinction between classes and more importantly as a tributary relation.