“Children know when they're loved. It's when you grow up that you're more easily fooled.”

“You know your children are growing up when they stop asking you where they came from and refuse to tell you where they're going.”

“It's easy to manipulate your children when they're absolutely sure you're stupid.”

“People think they are all sort of things they aren't' he had sad. 'They think they are talented when they're not; they think they're powerful when they're actually just bullies; they think they're good when they're bad. People fools themselves all the time, and they don't know that they're fools”

“When I'm born I'm black, when I grow up I'm black, when I'm in the sun I'm black, when I'm sick I'm black, when I die I'm black, and you... when you're born you're pink, when you grow up you're white, when you're cold you're blue, when you're sick you're blue, when you die you're green and you dare call me colored”

“It's very hard to grow up in a perfect family when you're not perfect.”