I am learning to live, and to see beauty in everything.
The best way to fight poverty is to empower people through access to quality education
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.
Hip-hop was the culture that I grew up with; I am part of this culture.
I hadn't bargained for this. I didn't think it would be like this - shabby clothes, worn-out shoes, circles under your eyes, your hair getting straight and lanky, the way people look at you. . . . I didn't think it would be like this
If they analyze the situation as thoroughly as they should, Muslims will realize they are the first targets. What are the fundamentalists really after? Simply taking over Islam and then turning its back on modernity.
I still have people coming up to me, and it was, what, six or seven years ago when that finale aired? And they tell me who they were watching with, what their emotional reaction was, and how they were devastated for weeks about [Rita's death in Dexter].