Family life was wonderful. The streets were bleak. The playgrounds were bleak. But home was always warm. My mother and father had a great relationship. I always felt 'safe' there.

Because I didn't have brothers I was always interested in the kids down the street that had four brothers in their family so I became one of them - but it was not my family. I've always been attracted to temporary families. They tend to be lost characters.

There's nothing I value more than the closeness of friends and family a smile as I pass someone on the street.

I'll tell you in my life I've never once have seen a Hispanic panhandler because in our community it would be viewed as shameful to be out on the street begging. Those are all conservative values - faith family hard work responsibility.

Hollywood is a suction for your confidence or your faith or your togetherness. Just walking on the street you can feel it.

Tyler Perry's brand is faith family and this whole thing that I've built while my company 34th Street Films is like Disney's Touchstone. We can do anything. People don't know what to expect from me yet.

Failure is a detour not a dead-end street.

What is the price of experience? Do men buy it for a song? Or wisdom for a dance in the street? No it is bought with the price of all the man hath his house his wife his children.

From a viable economy to the full funding of Headstart from a clean environment to true equality for women from a strong military to a commitment to racial brotherhood from schools that are honored to streets free of excessive violence.

The poor have to labour in the face of the majestic equality of the law which forbids the rich as well as the poor to sleep under bridges to beg in the streets and to steal bread.