I do have a lot of gays in my family now, but some will never come out.

He didn’t come out of my belly, but my God, I’ve made his bones, because I’ve attended to every meal, and how he sleeps, and the fact that he swims like a fish because I took him to the ocean. I’m so proud of all those things. But he is my biggest pride.

First love is only a little foolishness and a lot of curiosity.

A mother takes twenty years to make a man of her boy, and another woman makes a fool of him in twenty minutes.

Love is the ability and willingness to allow those that you care for to be what they choose for themselves without any insistence that they satisfy you.

Sucking up to the biggies won’t get us anywhere.

Man’s enemies are not demons, but human beings like himself.

I imagine I will spend my days traveling from country to country to visit our children, who I expect will live around the world.

Most people would rather give than get affection.

We do not so much need the help of our friends as the confidence of their help in need.

Single life is so overrated.

I mean, families are weird.

When love beckons to you, follow him, Though his ways are hard and steep. And when his wings enfold you yield to him, Though the sword hidden among his pinions may wound you.

A quarrel is quickly settled when deserted by one party; there is no battle unless there be two.

One thing they never tell you about child raising is that for the rest of your life, at the drop of a hat, you are expected to know your child’s name and how old he or she is.

I don’t go down the road of condemning.

Go up close to your friend, but do not go over to him! We should also respect the enemy in our friend.

We had problems like all families but we had a lot of love. I was extremely loved. We always felt we had each other.

I like to write about love and love lost because I feel like there are so many different subcategories of emotions that you can possibly delve into.

I don’t think there’s an option for me to fall in love slowly or at medium speed. I either do, or I don’t.

Who’s my hero? That’s a great question… Well, I think my dad is my hero, because he’s someone I look up to every day.

Treat your children like the blessings they are or don’t have them at all.

The time is long overdue to stop looking for progress through racial or ethnic leaders. Such leaders have too many incentives to promote polarizing attitudes and actions that are counterproductive for minorities and disastrous for the country.

Young love is wild and outrageous, laughing at moderation and blinding us to common sense.

I think your values are always influenced by your family and your community.

I don’t travel with them, but they can’t be missing in my home. There have to always be dominoes… I used to play with my family – dad, my grandpa, my uncles.

Basically my wife was immature. I’d be at home in the bath and she’d come in and sink my boats.

It’s not proper for the government to intrude too thoroughly into the domain of the family. It’s inappropriate.

For me, it’s about the way I carry myself and the way I treat other people. My relationship and how I feel about God and what He does for me, is something deeply personal. It’s where I came from, my family, I was brought up in a religious household and that’s very important to me.

Happiness can exist only in acceptance.

I like working. That’s when I’m feeling my best. And the people around me know that. My wife knows that.

I’m very proud to be black, but black is not all I am. That’s my cultural historical background, my genetic makeup, but it’s not all of who I am nor is it the basis from which I answer every question.

Whether a person is straight or gay, Republican, Democrat, good person, not a good person, they’re all welcome, because to me, church is a place you’re supposed to get healed and whole and loved.

Men are April when they woo, December when they wed. Maids are May when they are maids, but the sky changes when they are wives.

Discrimination has a lot of layers that make it tough for minorities to get a leg up.

I believe in a passion for inclusion.

Quarrel? Nonsense; we have not quarreled. If one is not to get into a rage sometimes, what is the good of being friends?

You can’t be in love with a Google search.

Let there be no purpose in friendship save the deepening of the spirit.

I didn’t have any children of my own.

I’ve laid my friends bare.

The philosophical idea that there are no more distances, that we are all just one world, that we are all brothers, is such a drag! I like differences.

I think a father is important for everyone. If you don’t have, then maybe not so much. In the world today, it’s possible that you grow up with only one parent in the family.

I am not afraid of death, I just don’t want to be there when it happens.

Marriage is the death of hope.

Consult your friend on all things, especially on those which respect yourself. His counsel may then be useful where your own self-love might impair your judgment.

I’m tri-racial: African-American, Native American and Euro – that’s the Scotch-Irish part.

You’re imperfect, and you’re wired for struggle, but you are worthy of love and belonging.

Love can consign us to hell or to paradise, but it always takes us somewhere.

I am good, but not an angel. I do sin, but I am not the devil. I am just a small girl in a big world trying to find someone to love.

I’m not one icon. I’m every icon. I’m an icon that is made out of all the colors on the palette at every time. I have no restrictions. No restrictions.

Whenever something went wrong when I was young – if I had a pimple or if my hair broke – my mom would say, ‚Sister mine, I’m going to make you some soup.‘ And I really thought the soup would make my pimple go away or my hair stronger.

Brad and I have never wanted our kids to be actors, but we also want them to be around film and be a part of Mommy and Daddy’s life and for it not to be kept from them, either. We just want them to have a good, healthy relationship with it.

He who is cruel to animals becomes hard also in his dealings with men. We can judge the heart of a man by his treatment of animals.

When a man says he had pleasure with a woman he does not mean conversation.

I have a family, loving aunts, and a good home. No, on the surface I seem to have everything except my one true friend. All I think about when I’m with friends is having a good time. I can’t bring myself to talk about anything but ordinary everyday things. We don’t seem to be able to get any closer, and that’s the problem.

Men are by nature merely indifferent to one another; but women are by nature enemies.

Do you know what it means to come home at night to a woman who’ll give you a little love, a little affection, a little tenderness? It means you’re in the wrong house, that’s what it means.

I’m more of an adventurous type than a relationship type.

Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness.

I have a full and satisfying life. My work and my family are very important to me.