“And I remember going to the record studio and there was a park across the street and I’d see all the children playing and I would cry because it would make me sad that I would have to work instead.”
“Because I wanted to have a place that I could create everything that I that I never had as a child. So, you see rides. You see animals. There’s a movie theater.”
“Before I would hurt a child, I would slit my wrists.”
“Everyone who knows me will know the truth, which is that my children come first in my life and that I would never harm any child.”
“I was a veteran, before I was a teenager.”
“I’m happy to be alive, I’m happy to be who I am.”
“I’m a black American, I am proud of my race. I am proud of who I am. I have a lot of pride and dignity.”
“If you enter this world knowing you are loved and you leave this world knowing the same, then everything that happens in between can be dealt with.”
“Just because it’s in print doesn’t mean it’s the gospel.”
“Let us dream of tomorrow where we can truly love from the soul, and know love as the ultimate truth at the heart of all creation.”
“The greatest education in the world is watching the masters at work.”
“When I see children, I see the face of God. That’s why I love them so much. That’s what I see.”
“Yes, and I had pimples so badly it used to make me so shy. I used not to look at myself. I’d hide my face in the dark, I wouldn’t want to look in the mirror and my father teased me and I just hated it and I cried everyday.”
“In a world filled with hate, we must still dare to hope. In a world filled with anger, we must still dare to comfort. In a world filled with despair, we must still dare to dream. And in a world filled with distrust, we must still dare to believe.”
“I love E. T. ‘cos it reminds me of me. Someone from another world coming down and you becoming friends with them and this person is, like, 800 years old and he’s filling you with all kinds of wisdom and he can teach you to fly. That whole fantasy thing which I think is great. I mean, who don’t wanna fly?”
“They used to call me a 45-year-old midget wherever I went.”
“I have a skin disorder that destroys the pigmentation of my skin, it’s something that I cannot help, OK? But when people make up stories that I don’t want to be what I am it hurts me.”
