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.
Less than fifteen per cent of the people do any original thinking on any subject. The greatest torture in the world for most people is to think.
I think, as an actress, people get on your case if you do the same thing over and over again. But if you get too far away from that, people don't like that, either.
I think the reason working-class people don't write books is because they are encouraged to believe that only certain people are permitted to write books.
While some people are enraged over opposing facts as an attack on their belief system and integrity, I take them as an ADDITION to mine! 12/13/14
But if I thought on it, I would like to be remembered as a brother who loved his people and did everything that I knew to fight for them, the liberation of our people.
I'm very bubbly, so when people meet me, they sometimes think I'm fake. I'm excited to meet new people, but I guess I sound like I'm being sarcastic.
Malcolm X raised my consciousness about myself and my people and other people more than any person I know. I knew him before he became Malcolm X.
Sometimes a crumb falls From the tables of joy, Sometimes a bone Is flung. To some people Love is given, To others Only heaven.
Books in the YA genre, in particular, should use proper grammar because they're more of an example to young people than adults books are.
Some people meet me sometimes and they sit down and talk to me for a while and ask me my name and say, 'Oh, you're the guy'.
People comment on how you look; it's so unnecessary. I just wanted people to listen to what I have to say instead of focusing on anything else.
Some people watch comedy to relax. I watch '21 Grams.' I can recognize sadness and tragedy really easily because it's been with me forever.
I enjoyed hearing people do their own songs. I became attracted to singer-songwriters. I became interested in them as people; was curious about what they wanted to say.
I do get clocked in the street. People say, 'You're an actress, aren't you?' But they don't know my name. Nine times out of 10, they don't know what I've been in.
Some people get their books on the best-seller list and then they count the number of weeks, and I just never want to live that way.
Only in a concert situation do I have access to people directly to preach to them, and I don't believe that the bigger your platform is, the more people will pay attention.
I was recently appointed by President Obama to the President's Committee for People with Intellectual Disabilities. I am so excited that the President trusts me to advise him on things that are important to people with disabilities!
There's nowhere in New York to go and have your emotions to yourself. People just look the other way because every day people see someone crying on the subway!
So much of my career has been about saying things the way people say them, using melodies not that I can sing but that the people can sing.
The most accomplished way of using books is to serve them as some people do lords; learn their titles and then brag of their acquaintance.
