Everyone has their story. Everyone has issues. You have to face your fears.

We're getting ready to take over the world. My group of girlfriends - we're renegades.

It's okay to be a freak.

I work with youth offenders in LA, I've heard them speak and see how music manipulates them.

I felt devalued and disrespected. The energy behind it felt disingenuous and motivated by corporate profit.

I spent a lot of time feeling alienated and rejected.

An instructor once told me that when there's resistence in your body, it's only because of the resistence in your mind. It's about getting inside the pose. Being the breath.

We use a Native American tradition of the talking stick. You sit and pass it around and whoever has the stick has to talk. Some people just hold it. Others really share.

I took solace in my relationship with God who, along with my dog, was my best friend growing up.

It's from our sufferings that we form our consciousness.

The Cosby years were a major part of my life, but it is the past; I don't really concentrate on it.

I'm part of an important movement that needs to happen.

I was literally the black sheep of the family, and there were definitely moments of discomfort while my grandmother was working through her racism.

My mother, brave woman, lost her whole family when she decided to marry a black man in the '60s. When the marriage fell apart, she had to come back to her family.

Having Zoe saved my life. It was my wake-up call. There were so many things I didn't want to pass on to her.

I'm writing a film. With our access to these powerful media, we're going to take over, because it's really disgusting what is put out there now to be consumed.

I have a desire to create more film, more beauty, more art, more love, but I don't feel desperate. It's not about creating or building a career.

Both of my parents would say they were atheists, so where I inherited my connection to God I don't know. But it's natural. No Bible, no Torah, just the love religion.

Everyone has their story. Everyone has issues. You have to face your fears.

Success made me self-sufficient, but it also took away my anonymity. I'm just this quiet nobody, and all of a sudden people are nervous around me. That was kind of weird.

What saddens me is the corruption of youth and beauty, and the loss of soul, which is only replaced by money.

A group of us started a community center in Santa Monica. We've tried different programs, and three have worked really well. A poetry group. Once a week we visit Venice High and talk to girls at risk.

That industry expects you to prove yourself over and over again. Do I stay doing this, or do I raise my daughter and live surrounded by people who love me? Wasn't even really a choice.

My life is art. Its how I express God.

Prisons are like the concentration camps of our time. So many go in and never come out, and primarily they're black and Latino.

My desire to participate in the business is not to make more crap.

Once a week we go to juvenile hall and talk to boys there. Just go and spend a day in the juvenile courts.

Let those who know know, and let me keep what little privacy I can.

When I was 16 I was fortunate enough to get Cosby and move to New York and shift my whole life. that had been my dream all along, and it came true.

Its from our sufferings that we form our consciousness.

I am concerned for the security of our great Nation; not so much because of any threat from without, but because of the insidious forces working from within.

Man becomes weak or ill by accident as a consequence of the lack of resources. Even the most severally ill patients must be treated with the aim of restoring their health.

Life excites me-just little, normal, everyday things. Getting out of bed. Getting dressed. Making food. I find it all exciting.

I have seen journals with good financial backing and editorial support die because they looked so bad nobody wanted to publish them.

O God, that men should put an enemy in their mouths to steal away their brains! that we should, with joy, pleasance, revel, and applause, transform ourselves into beasts!

Anti-intellectualism has long been the anti-Semitism of the businessman.

Memories and emotions could be the greatest form of torture.

When you work you are a flute through whose heart the whispering of the hours turns to music. Which of you would be a reed dumb and silent when all else sings together in unison

I'm not interested in pleasing color; I'm interested in exact color.

Most of the shadows of this life are caused by our standing in one's own sunshine.

The number one person who needs my books is me. I'm not some sort of disinterested guru who has worked life out and is handing things out to the poor people who might not have life worked out.

I've definitely stolen a lot of things.

When I was playing for tips in college, I felt a fire in my soul. I had the same principle of focus that I had learned playing football.

That Oscar can be a jinx... It can... damage irreparably one's relations with family, friends. It's an uneasy head that wears the crown.

'Hansel and Gretel' is one of the scariest stories ever written! Psychotic mother; stupid, inane father.

I lived in San Pedro, California, which is, you know, on the west side of California, and it's where many, many Japanese lived.

If you really think you're right, you should tell it.

One reason Zipcar succeeded was its branding: cool, hip, smart, urban, fun, innovative. Who wouldn't want to be associated with that?

Nobody likes insurance companies, especially health insurance companies.