The sharecropper may lower his eyes, but not because he's less of a man. That's just a condition of society that such things exist.
A gender-equal society would be one where the word 'gender' does not exist: where everyone can be themselves.
In a sinful world, no community can exist for long where nobody is ever held accountable: no teacher would grade a student's performance; no citizen would sit on a jury or call a failed leader to account.
Well, it's very dangerous to project, but it's clear that the existing technology has some more years to go.
I love the concept of the romance that exists when people are broken. Like, the promise of a romance when you're at the bottom. I think that's infinitely compelling and romantic.
Superficial pop will always exist - there've always been Fabians - but when people like Dire Straits and Bruce Hornsby start having hits, it suggests that there's a revolution going on in music.
Amazingly, I've been sort of an anomaly in the music industry. I feel like I've been able to exist as kind of a throwback artist.
I'm extremely blessed to have the extraordinary mother that I have, and I don't mean Diana Ross, I mean the mother. My mom paved a road that didn't exist, as did Oprah.
If a violent act towards a woman takes place, and the inspiration for that act is violence in cinema, the inspiration for that act would have come from somewhere else if movies didn't exist.
Spring Break is very strange. I grew up in France, so I don't know Spring Break. That doesn't exist in Europe.
The man who has a library of his own collection is able to contemplate himself objectively, and is justified in believing in his own existence.
I grew up very comfortable in this bizarre, circus-like existence, but, as comfortable as I was, I was also aware of the struggles that actors go through.
The emergence of Pakistan, a decade ago, was an act of protest against the existence of privilege in the social order of the subcontinent of India.
What is more important in a library than anything else - than everything else - is the fact that it exists.
Jefferson and Washington had no idea these idiots would exist, otherwise they would not have made killing illegal.
Sometimes I feel like what's hard for fashion designers to do is take looks from off the runway and actually put it into existence, into reality. That's really the hard part.
Contradictions do not exist. Whenever you think you are facing a contradiction, check your premises. You will find that one of them is wrong.
Spirituality does not lie in meditating the body of an ex-master. Spirituality exists in mediating on your own inner body.
The coolest toys don't have to be bought; they can be built. In fact, sometimes the only way they'll ever exist is if you make them yourself.
What exists outside is a man's concern; let no woman give advice; and do no mischief within doors.
Unlike a variety of other relationships,friendship requires an acknowledgement by both parties that they are involved or it fails to exist.
