Fame does different things to different people. For some people it makes them a better person.
Oh judge! Your damn laws! The good people don't need them, and the bad people don't obey them.
Good things don't happen to "good people"; good things happen to happy people.
Motivation is everything. You can do the work of two people, but you can't be two people. Instead, you have to inspire the next guy down the line and get him to inspire his people.
Love was the greatest thing, wasn't it? Love was what we had that no one else had or could ever have? And you were a genius and I was your whole life. I was your partner and your little black flower. Slop. Love is just another dirty lie. Love is ergo...
Few people rise to our esteem upon closer scrutiny.
When three people say you are drunk, go to sleep.
Good people, like clouds, receive only to give away.
Even a sheet of paper is lighter when two people lift it.
Rule: Never perform card tricks for the people you play poker with.
Some people are jerks, and some people aren't.
Perfect people are the scariest people to me.
The misgovernment of the American people is misgovernment by the American people.
There's no people like show people.
An instrument s a tool that is actively used to change something, and God has called all of his people to be instruments of change in his redemptive hands
Embedded in the larger story of redemption is a principle we must not miss: God uses ordinary people to do extraordinary things in the lives of others.
Money makes people stupid. They don't have to work as hard as people who don't have money. That's why the smart people who do have money mostly use it for one thing… They use it to make sure the people without it don't get any more.
I meet people and they enforce me their culture and then I choose to fly away and I meet other people and these people force me their religion and I wanna fly away. I meet other people, these people are silent, we begin to sing the song of the ocean ...
It's really nice meeting people after a concert. Still, it's very weird to be at the center of a group of 30 people all listening to what you're saying. When that group turns into 300 people, it goes on from weird. Some people revel in it, and I don'...
You definitely want your kids to understand their heritage, but I don't want my kids to just focus on being black. They are people. I don't want them to judge other people or to be judged. I want them to be good people, so good people will treat them...
I think poetry always lives its life, and people come to it and people go away from it, 'people' in the sense of larger numbers of people. It's as though you begin to think that poetry is a resource, and that at certain times people seem to need it o...