Quotes About Perspective

Business is not the aim of life; it's a game.

I love telling stories. I don't really think in terms of clear 'aims.'

Sometimes, when you go to airport and look at the people, you see the worst looks - but the worst looks can give you more ideas than the best looks.

I never really had an opinion about the Al Muhajiroun; I didn't really know enough about them.

My feeling about Al Ain was very positive, was very good, and if my feeling wasn't like that I would never have come.

I always tell people that I was raised in Alabama, but I grew up in New York!

You can't make somebody buy an album. I buy people's albums though.

In my days, I played under several captains, none of whom were alike.

I can only admire people who I have never met and are dead - because you know so much about anyone who is alive.

I don't really listen to a lot of stuff that sounds real similar to me because I work on that kind of music all day. I end up listening to more jazz, stuff that I can't really play.

All my friends have always been older than me.

I realized I've spent all my life creating a past.

Typically, there's this perspective among writers - and black writers: there's this idea that there is one person - and maybe beyond writers - among blacks, there is always one person who everyone should go to learn about all things black.

I didn't have a father growing up, and I was raised with all women, and I didn't really understand men. I thought they were like women, right?

A negative Allen Iverson story is the greatest Allen Iverson story, for some reason.

I've always found men to be incredible allies, particularly with their perspective.

You want to give your children better than what you had and make them feel like they have everything. But I think there is also a lot of value in making them work for things and allowing them to see other places.

Sometimes, someone you thought was your adversary is your ally.

I can see humor in almost anything.

I think almost everything in life is life-experience, personality-driven.

It's very hard for me to place myself alongside another artist. Everyone has something unique to express.

The movies I'm in not a lot of people see, but it's alright.

I feel like it's a really natural part of writing: You lose perspective, and you have to let it go sometimes in order to come back to it and see that it's pretty alright.

I just think about how much worse something could be, and I'm like, 'Alright, cool, whatever.' I'm nonchalant.