Begging for acknowledgment, or even asking, diminishes dignity and diminishes power.
There ain't no problem that some other dude didn't have 1,000 years ago.
There's a certain delusional quality that all successful people have to have.
Stop letting people who do so little for you control so much of your mind, feelings and emotions
In black neighborhoods, everybody appreciated comedy about real life. In the white community, fantasy was funnier. I started looking for the jokes that were equally hilarious across the board, for totally different reasons.
I'm starting to be a lot more comfortable with allowing people to decide for themselves and almost creating a situation that forces people to decide for themselves whether they like it or don't like it or agree with the character or disagree with the character.