When I talk to kids, I'm really listening. When I do that, we have a little bit of a bigger connection than me being Kendrick Lamar and you being a student. It's almost like we're friends. Because a friend listens.

Kendrick Lamar

Kendrick LamarKidsListeningFriends...+2

With friends, one is well; but at home, one is better.

Leo Tolstoy

FriendsHomeBetterWell

Why is it so hard for people to believe that white people are poor?! I wouldn't say I lived in a ghetto; I'd say I lived in the 'hood. The same friends I had back then are the same people on tour with me now.

Eminem

PoorGhettoHoodFriends...+2

You can't make old friends. You either have them or you don't.

Kenny Rogers

FriendsMakeEitherOld

A slender acquaintance with the world must convince every man, that actions, not words, are the true criterion of the attachment of his friends, and that the most liberal professions of good will are very far from being the surest marks of it. I should be happy that my own experience had afforded fewer examples of the little dependence to be placed upon them.

George Washington

AcquaintanceActionsWordsCriterion...+5

I like friends who have independent minds because they tend to make you see problems from all angles.

Nelson Mandela

FriendsProblemsIndependentAngles...+1