But suppose God is black? What if we go to Heaven and we all our lives have treated the Negro as an inferior and God is there and we look up and He is not white? What then is our response?
When I was playing before I retired I never really understood the appreciation and the respect that people gave me. People had treated me like a god or something and that was very embarrassing.
Throughout life people will make you mad disrespect you and treat you bad. Let God deal with the things they do cause hate in your heart will consume you too.
The key to making healthy decisions is to respect your future self. Honor him or her. Treat him or her like you would treat a friend or a loved one. A Stanford study showed that those who saw a photo of their future self made smarter financial decisions.
And regardless of the fact that in this country certainly in the arts we treat comedy as a second-class citizen I've never thought of it that way. I've always thought it to be important. The last time I looked the Greeks were holding up two masks. I've always thought of it not only as having equal value but as the craft of it being funny.
It's so different when you change your hair color you're treated so differently. It's a very funny experience. It's fun - I love changing up my hair.
When you are not treated seriously you develop comically. Its sense of oneself is so fractured and fragile that it's like the picked-on kid who has to become funny.
That's a funny thing fame. People definitely do treat you differently. When you begin to be successful people say 'Don't go changing.' Well that's easy to say but the fact is you don't change at all - other people do.
If you're going through friendship issues I would say first of all take a step back. How important is the friendship to you? Sometimes if someone's not being a good friend to you and isn't treating you the way you should be treated then you kind of have to move on sometimes.
It may be a cold clammy thing to say but those that treat friendship the same as any other selfishness seem to get the most out of it.