Even if I know I shall never change the masses, never transform anything permanent, all I ask is that the good things also have their place, their refuge.
No matter how old you are, if a little kid hands you a toy phone. . . you answer it.
The hardest thing to do is to be true to yourself, especially when everybody is watching.
Things like racism are institutionalized. You might not know any bigots. You feel like "well I don't hate black people so I'm not a racist," but you benefit from racism. Just by the merit, the color of your skin. The opportunities that you have, you're privileged in ways that you might not even realize because you haven't been deprived of certain things. We need to talk about these things in order for them to change.
What did the 5 fingers say to the face. S L A P!
I support anyone's right to be who they want to be. My question is: to what extent do I have to participate in your self-image?
You know, be able to do something great in your life, you're gonna have to realize your failures. You're gonna have to embrace them and figure out how to overcome it.
A rose to the living is more Than sumptuous wreaths to the dead.
Some day a real rain will come and wash all the scum off the streets.
Why wait for a call when you have a command?
It is when we act freely, for the sake of the action itself rather than for ulterior motives, that we learn to become more than what we were.