“Another murder I committed made the front page.”

The kids from the streets don’t want preaching or messages. They want what they can identify with. They want to hear about the reality of their situation, not fairy tales. They don’t care if it’s ugly; they just want reality.

If you want to get your point across, you gotta cuss.

I have seven children by six different mothers. Maybe success was too good to me.

Movies don’t make people act a fool. People act a fool because they want to act a fool.

The boys in the hood are always hard.

I’m not a registered Republican or Democrat. I don’t even vote.

Get thee behind me Satan, and push me along. I’m kin to the devil.

What the cops did to Rodney King was wrong, and the officers who beat him should be sent straight to prison.

A solution to stop gang banging: SNOW!!

Nuthin’ can avoid this shot ’cause it’s hittin’ It’s so cool when you touch it, wear a mitten

I go to correctional facilities and talk to kids there. They have little kids in there who are, like, 12 years old, stealing cars and stuff like that.

Storytelling reveals meaning without committing the error of defining it.

Evil, as she saw it, need not be committed only by demonic monsters but—with disastrous effect—by morons and imbeciles as well, especially if, as we see in our own day, their deeds are sanctioned by religious authority.

I am the punishment of God, If you had not committed great sins, God would not have sent a punishment like me upon you.

An action committed in anger is an action doomed to failure.

The right people will be honest, loyal, and committed.

He’s fully committed to appreciating his body with all its flaws and imperfections, more and more every day.

It would seem to me that I was committing a theft if I were to let one day go by without doing some work.

A man who loves you will never make you second guess his commitment.