People Quotes

Last time I was down South I walked into this restaurant, and this white waitress came up to me and said: ‘We don’t serve colored people here.’ I said: ‘that’s all right, I don’t eat colored people. Bring me a whole fried chicken.

A lot of times when you keep it real with somebody, you can’t expect them to keep it real with you. In this industry people just want to be famous and they forget how to keep it real and they forget to give credit to the people who helped them get to where they at.

Of those men who have overturned the liberties of republics the greatest number have begun their career, by paying an obsequious court to the people; commencing Demagogues, and ending Tyrants.

We are like people looking for something they have in their hands all the time; we’re looking in all directions except at the thing we want, which is probably why we haven’t found it.

I prefer just being with people I like. That’s my way of celebrating.

When you go through all your life processing and abusing your hair so it will look like the hair of another race of people then you are making a statement and the statement is clear.

The question isn’t, ‘What do we want to know about people?’ It’s, ‘What do people want to tell about themselves.

The time must come when, great and pressing as change and betterment may be, they do not involve killing and hurting people.

Strange how people who suffer together have stronger connections than those who are most content.

It simply depends on the attitudes, the perspectives, and the reactions we bring to situations and to our relationships with other people.