If you want to be seen, stand up. If you want to be heard, speak up. If you want to be appreciated, shut up.

What best defines a child is the total inability to receive information from anything not plugged in.

But if that's what you want to be, that's what you will be - as long as you study.

When I say, 'I don't care what white people think,' I mean that.

If the new American father feels bewildered and even defeated, let him take comfort from the fact that whatever he does in any fathering situation has a fifty percent chance of being right.

People will frighten you about a graduation.... They use words you don't hear often: And we wish you Godspeed." It is a warning, Godspeed. It means you are no longer welcome here at these prices."

Romance is a different word than sexual contact.