Alas, I am a woman friendless, hopeless!

A man’s growth is seen in the successive choirs of his friends.

Falling in love and having a relationship are two different things.

On the other hand, what I like my music to do to me is awaken the ghosts inside of me. Not the demons, you understand, but the ghosts.

A man will speedily sit down and sympathize with a friend’s griefs, but if he sees him honored and esteemed, he is apt to regard him as a rival and does not so readily rejoice with him. This ought not to be; without effort, we ought to be happy in our brother’s happiness.

The components of anxiety, stress, fear, and anger do not exist independently of you in the world. They simply do not exist in the physical world, even though we talk about them as if they do.

Jealousy… is a mental cancer.

Smiles are the language of love.

The word ‚happy‘ would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness.

Plato is my friend; Aristotle is my friend, but my greatest friend is truth.

Just as your car runs more smoothly and requires less energy to go faster and farther when the wheels are in perfect alignment, you perform better when your thoughts, feelings, emotions, goals, and values are in balance.

I believe everyone should have a good death. You know, with your grandchildren around you, a bit of sobbing. Because after all, tears are appropriate on a death bed. And you say goodbye to your loved ones, making certain that one of them has been left behind to look after the shop.

The hunger for love is much more difficult to remove than the hunger for bread.

Wicked thoughts and worthless efforts gradually set their mark on the face, especially the eyes.

If you are not being bullied all I would say – cause I like to talk about the other side of it as well – is you know, be someone that nurtures, and if there’s someone in your class that maybe doesn’t have a lot of friends, be the person that sits with them in the cafeteria sometimes; be the bigger person.

If your heart is a volcano, how shall you expect flowers to bloom?

Every relationship should eventually become a long-term relationship. Any director that I meet now isn’t just a director. He’s potentially a friend, and someone I can call to do a project that I want or that I have.

It is usually the imagination that is wounded first, rather than the heart; it being much more sensitive.

I’d rather tell you how I really feel.

I made my first white women friends in college; they loved me and were loyal to our friendship, but I understood, as they did, that they were white women and that whiteness mattered.

I have a great deal of company in the house, especially in the morning when nobody calls.

Bitterness is like cancer. It eats upon the host. But anger is like fire. It burns it all clean.

I think one of the basic reasons men make good friends is that they can make up their minds quickly.

All violent feelings have the same effect. They produce in us a falseness in all our impressions of external things, which I would generally characterize as the pathetic fallacy.

Affection is responsible for nine-tenths of whatever solid and durable happiness there is in our lives.

Social media has given us this idea that we should all have a posse of friends when in reality, if we have one or two really good friends, we are lucky.

When you’re a little kid, you don’t see color, and the fact that my friends were black never crossed my mind. It never became an issue until I was a teenager and started trying to rap.

I have this feeling that the world is not in balance. And people are afraid, but we’re also starting to be really brave.

You can make more friends in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you.

I went through every emotion with tryna pursue what I’m doing, you know what I mean? And I think what’s gon‘ separate whoever’s gon go for something, that you ain’t gon‘ quit.

I don’t feel that I’m explaining the world or teaching people anything. And I’m not trying to be a mirror, showing them what’s really going on the world. All I’m trying to do is think of stuff that’s funny, just like when I’m kidding around with my friends.

I have never felt more confident in myself, more clear on who I am as a woman. But I am constantly thinking about my own health and making sure that I’m eating right and getting exercise and watching the aches and pains. I want to be this really fly 80-90-year old.

Sensual love deceives one as to the nature of heavenly love; it could not do so alone, but since it unconsciously has the element of heavenly love within it, it can do so.

Having a child, that’s always been my biggest fear. I want a child and I fear a child.

True friends stab you in the front.

There is as much difference between the counsel that a friend giveth, and that a man giveth himself, as there is between the counsel of a friend and of a flatterer. For there is no such flatterer as is a man’s self.

What do I care about the purring of one who cannot love, like the cat?

There is just no comparison between having a dinner date with a man and staying home playing canasta with the girls.

I don’t know, I feel desperate when I sing. And I look desperate – it feels like I’m singing for my life, which makes me twitch, if that makes sense.

It is necessary to fall in love… if only to provide an alibi for all the random despair you are going to feel anyway.

I’ve laid my friends bare.

When I talk to kids, I’m really listening. When I do that, we have a little bit of a bigger connection than me being Kendrick Lamar and you being a student. It’s almost like we’re friends. Because a friend listens.

Well, all comedy starts with anger. You get angry, and its never for a good reason, right? You know its not a good reason. And then you try and work it from there.

Peace and friendship with all mankind is our wisest policy, and I wish we may be permitted to pursue it.

When you think about it, three of our biggest financial decisions in life are made at times of peak emotional excitement: deciding to get married, buying a home, and having kids.

So long as the memory of certain beloved friends lives in my heart, I shall say that life is good.

Perhaps travel cannot prevent bigotry, but by demonstrating that all peoples cry, laugh, eat, worry, and die, it can introduce the idea that if we try and understand each other, we may even become friends.

Nobody knows me.

Acting is happy agony.

Man alone is born crying, lives complaining, and dies disappointed.

No one is a friend to his friend who does not love in return.

Sitting on a bedroom floor crying is something that makes you feel really alone. If someone’s singing about that feeling, you feel bonded to that person.

Love, we say, is life; but love without hope and faith is agonizing death.

For in the end, freedom is a personal and lonely battle; and one faces down fears of today so that those of tomorrow might be engaged.

Hatred is self-punishment.

I don’t know half of you half as well as I should like; and I like less than half of you half as well as you deserve.

There, in the chords and melodies, is everything I want to say. The words just jolly it along. It’s always been my way of expressing what, for me, is inexpressible by any other means.

Friendship, like the immortality of the soul, is too good to be believed.

Waste brings woe, and sorrow hates despair.

I’m perpetually lonely.

What women need to understand is that men don’t communicate. It’s not intentional or on purpose. We’re just not as emotional. You ladies feel like you have to express yourselves.