If you speak your mind and if it is true what you're saying, then I think the integrity of what you're saying carries through.

Sometimes you try to help people, and it backfires on you, and then they try to take advantage of you.

I was'nt always black. there was this freckel that just grew and grew.

All around the United States of America - in the cities and the counties - our public education is suffering and has been suffering. Cuts, cuts, cuts.

My dad came over to the house... went into his pocket and pulled out a handful of money, and began to pass it out to the children... This was the same man who, when I was his child, I would ask him for 50 cents, this man would tell me his life's story.

On many young actors that don't give their parents proper credit: I'm still waiting for some actor to win, say, an Oscar... and deliver the following acceptance speech: I would like to thank my parents, first of all, for letting me live.

My father would pass gas and then blame it on imaginary animals.