I was able to do To Sleep with Anger, a very powerful film about African Americans, their spirituality, and the things that happened within a small community and a family.

A wise man knows when to stay silent. However, a wiser man of faith knows that sometimes words can win the battle when all odds stand against you.

Shannon L. Alder

I grew up painting and playing piano so when I was a little kid I thought I was going to be an artist or a painter but my mom had me taking piano lessons for about 10-12 years as a young kid.

Mike Shinoda

The surest poison is time.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

I don't think anybody cares about unwed mothers unless they're black or poor. The question is not morality, the question is money. That's what we're upset about.

Toni Morrison

People don't live in New Orleans because it is easy. They live here because they are incapable of living anywhere else in the just same way.

Ian McNulty

Being myself is the one thing that people would want to see out of me, they don't want to see me being the fake person that the world wants me to be, all they want to see is the real me, the real person that is inside of me.

erica maples

I cannot be grasped in the here and now,For my dwelling place is much among the dead,As the yet unborn,Slightly closer to the heart of creation than usual,But still not close enough.

Paul Klee

At home I am a nice guy: but I don't want the world to know. Humble people, I've found, don't get very far.

Muhammad Ali

Real friendship, like real poetry, is extremely rare - and precious as a pearl.

Tahar Ben Jelloun

I have always maintained that society has no business dictating morality.

Peter Fonda

All things must change to something new, to something strange.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Living at risk is jumping off the cliff and building your wings on the way down.

Ray Bradbury