American Quotes

I want to touch the world through my performances on screen but also off screen.

I feel like decades ago it was either you're black, white, Asian or Hispanic, or whatever, but today we see more of an acceptance for people with multi-nationalities.

I come from an interracial family: My father is from Nigeria, and so he is African-American, and my mother is American and white, so I rarely see skin color. It's never an issue for me.

It was like going to church, except Ozzy Osbourne was there.

Jim Bakker. He's lost everything, he's ruined. And the worst thing of all he still has to wake up to her!

I don't worry about terrorism. I was married for two years.

I guess they're tough jokes. But there's lots of things you either laugh or cry at. And you just can't cry.

Folks, I've been straight for seventeen days... Not all in a row.

My goal is just to get healthy as far as what my ideal weight has to be for my height.

It's easy to gain weight when you're in the studio.

I think country has the biggest melodies ever.

I make sure I always surround myself with good, down to earth, fun, real people, who always keep me grounded.

I love song writing, so I'm always happy to write for other musicians.

I love Beyonce.

I don't think an artist should keep themselves categorized in a specific box.

God is great.

To me success means effectiveness in the world, that I am able to carry my ideas and values into the world - that I am able to change it in positive ways.

The sweat of hard work is not to be displayed. It is much more graceful to appear favored by the gods.

I learned to make my mind large, as the universe is large, so that there is room for contradictions.

Hunger also changes the world - when eating can't be a habit, then neither can seeing.

The difference between mad people and sane people... is that sane people have variety when they talk-story. Mad people have only one story that they talk over and over.

What we want the folks in Ethiopia to know is that we are behind them in the democratic process. We know it is not perfect, as we are still working on ours; but we wish them success in this great and noble endeavor.

What I would ask the Democrat Party is to put your plan on the table, because most people agree with the facts, and the facts are that Social Security is running out of money.

There is a certain element of complementarity between men and women that is biological by nature.

So far, 44 States, or 88 percent of the States, have enacted laws providing that marriage shall consist of a union between a man and a woman. Only 75 percent of the States are required to approve a constitutional amendment.

Our current identification system is so disjointed that the World Trade Center terrorists had a total of 63 valid driver's licenses between them.

Most people understand life expectancy has changed since Social Security started in 1937 when folks lived to be 59 years old. Today, they live to be 77 years old.

Marriage is sacred and protected and has nothing to do with violating our civil rights.

Marriage encourages the men and women who together create life to unite in a bond for the protection of children.

Marriage cannot be severed from its cultural, religious and natural roots without weakening the good influence of society.