“Can you believe we still around?after so many hit the ground and we ain't gon' stop now until we get that wisdom”

“We can fight fire with water provided we can get it there soon enough. But often we act when it's too late. The result is splattered in the pages of our history: bloodbaths, uprisings, revolutions, you name. And on it goes. We learn so slowly. After so many centuries, we're still a people who eat fire and drink water.' 'Why bother,then?' 'Because we have to believe that one day we'll learn.”

“And ev'ry tear you cry's a smile you ain't never gon' get back.”

“And again, as always, after so many years we were still in the same place we always were.”

“It ain't so much the things we don't know that get us in trouble. It's the things we know that ain't so.”

“We parents are an extension of our children, not the other way around. We are their conscience until it becomes their responsibility to tell themselves what’s right and necessary. We are their butlers until they are fully able to get the items they need and can clean up after themselves. We are their cheerleaders until they learn how to develop their own confidence and motivation. We are their counselors until they are able to take the lead in making the tough decisions that affect them.”