Quotes About Responsibility

When you say 'the man of the house,' the black woman has been the woman and the man of the house, because black men have so often had to spend all of their time and energy working and trying, at least, to give their families the basic needs. So black women, I find, are not really concerned about women's liberation.

It rests in the hands of the common person as well as those with the power to shape humanity's course toward a world where every child, woman and man's most basic needs are met.

You can't run your career on the basis of what someone else does.

When it's late in a game and things are tough and you need a basket, someone has to step up. That player has to have the ability to create opportunities and draw fouls.

I think that basketball players should get the job done no matter how it looks on the screen.

They tried to make my dad play professional basketball. But he was married young, too, at 20 years old. He wanted to have a family and said that money was not enough.

My kids know who I am on the basketball court, but at the end of the day, it doesn't matter about the basketball. I am their dad, and that is all that matters.

For India, it is all about whatever number they want me to bat and not the other way round.

Whenever I go out to bat, my only responsibility is to look at the scoreboard and think what India needs from me at this moment.

Existentialism means that no one else can take a bath for you.

While growing up we all did our own work' I remember, we had a sign on our bathroom door which said 'Gandhiji cleaned his own bathrooms, so must you.'

When someone says, 'I'm not political,' I feel like what they're saying is, 'I only care about myself. In my bathtub. Me and my bathtub is what I care about.'

There were definitely times when I regretted ever being Batman.

I was a rock star. I was the president of Baton Rouge, Louisiana.

The main thing for me - as a leader, anyway, is that you perform well. That's most of the battle.

Even if you hurt my feelings and you lie, be a man and admit it. I'd rather someone be honest to me.

Helping teach my son right from wrong, what to do and how to be a man, just about life in general, same thing with my daughter, it's just very important to me.

If we want our politics to be different, we need to be different.

I will always be grateful to Arsenal for bringing me into the best league in the world, but Swansea have given me what I always wanted, and as No. 1, I want to pay them back.

My father worked hard, but we were still very poor; and I didn't want anybody arguing about money, so I became the entertainer - the one who wanted everyone to be happy. I didn't want there to be any problems.

I would always be happy to serve my country in any way that I was called upon to do.

You have moments where you're down, but I can be sad for one or two hours, no more. The rest of the time, I have to be happy because the team needs me to be positive. My brain needs it. I need it.

We can be kind to others and kind to ourselves - and what anyone else decides to do is up to them. We can just be responsible to ourselves.

That would be nice, to become more of a leader in the team.