"Every new refugee to a society, whether it's the United States or some other place, is subjected to fear. They are the new outsider population, the new other."

“Dementia was like a truth serum.”

“When it comes to government policy, can we please stop using words like "architect"? Telling people what to do is not a skilled profession.”

“I was never in an awkward position where I had to curb my manhood.”

Source : "Beanie Sigel spits anti-Jay-Z rhymes in online video" by Shaheem Reid, www.mtv.com. November 18, 2009.

“Painting is a lot harder than pickin' cotton. Cotton's right there for you to pull off the stalk, but to paint, you got to sweat your mind.”

“Man has places in his heart which do not yet exist, and into them enters suffering, in order that they may have existence.”

“Man is now in charge of the thermostat for the globe.”

“I have lived in a flurry of images, but I will go out in a freeze frame.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

“I know not whether the remark is to our honour or otherwise, that lessons of wisdom have never such power over us, as when they are wrought into the heart, through the ground-work of a story which engages the passions: Is it that we are like iron, and must first be heated before we can be wrought upon?”