The truth is I’m not a superhero. And Sands and his men, they’re probably not wearing capes either. They’re real. Killing real people. And in the real world, bad guys win and good guys die.
The perils of being a politician. You only wield as much power as the people give you. And what they give you, they can take away.
The people are hungry for more than just food. They crave distractions. And if we don’t provide them, they’ll create their own. And their distractions are likely to end with us being torn to pieces.
The only thing more dangerous than being Black in public is when you start inspiring people.
The more time you spend with someone, the more cursed you are to see them as human.
The day I ask my people to fight with the crows is the day my people cut my guts from my belly and make me eat them.
The best reason for making machines more like people is to make people less like machines.
That’s the thing about people, they always find ways to surprise you.[to Rose]
Take a good look at the people around you. Do you trust them? Do you trust yourself?
Sometimes, people do the wrong thing for the right reasons.
Sometimes when people get what they want they realize how limited their goals were.
Sometimes we have to do things we don’t like to protect the people we care about.