kids

The Creator favors the man who loves over the man who hates. If you teach hatred to your children, one day your child will have that hatred reflected back onto them, or onto you.

We are all so close. We are godfather to each others' kids. I was the best man at Jesus' wedding.

Most kids don't get to go their parents' wedding.

Kids are going to try drugs and alcohol that's part of society.

If we talk about the environment, for example, we have to talk about environmental racism - about the fact that kids in South Central Los Angeles have a third of the lung capacity of kids in Santa Monica.

I think a lot of kids feel alone and slightly isolated and in their own world.

Kids in a home with grandparents are healthier.

I'm happy to be at home with the kids, in my flannel pajamas; that's a treat.

I like being married. I'm at home with my wife and kids all the time now. I don't go out for wild nights.

If I was a book, I would like to be a library book, so I would be taken home by all different sorts of kids.

I was one of those dark, quiet kids that wrote poetry.

I think when kids just see well-crafted poetry, it's just obtuse to them. It's hard to relate to.

I found poetry at 12 and 13 and, lo and behold, learned that my attorney father had a background in poetry - as he wore dashikis and Afros in the '70s and named his kids Arabic names. He was a poet and a lot like The Last Poets and Gil Scott-Heron and all of these folks. He definitely was an artist.

Once I got married and had kids, I moved away from romantic roles, because it seemed wrong to have my three-year-old wondering why Daddy was kissing someone else.

Is that romantic fantasy real? Um, after kids, no. Take the kids away, I don't know. Depends.

We're teaching our kids that attributes as vague and relatively meaningless as a toothy smile or a fine head of hair make a fine statement about a person.

There's nothing like seeing the smile on my kids' faces. Laughing together. Playing. It's the best.

Nobody can ever make enough money for as many poor relatives as I've got. Somebody's got a sick kid, or somebody needs an operation, somebody ain't got this, somebody ain't got that. Or to give the kids all a car when they graduate.