A wedding is at once a crowded place and a private room, packed with trusts and empty of all but the heart's letters which one other heart may read and decipher.

There's a champion in all of us, it's how you choose to find it.

Snowboarding allows you to create your own path, and for me it was awesome because no one was telling me what to do. I could go out on the mountain and try new things and learn for myself.

The best thing you can do is to keep riding your snowboard and love what you're doing. Without a passion for the sport it's difficult to take your riding to the next level.

Stay excited and stay humble and good things will come.

My intention is not to repudiate an African American identity but perhaps to resist how labels take hold, or to make it as slow a process as possible. That's more my sense of it.

Making of poetry, music, dance and art as culture-making in the service of nation-making. You can find writings that make that purpose for art quite explicit.

Anyway, culture and nation are partners, inextricable from each other. National culture and nation, they are reciprocities.

Strategize yearly, plan quarterly, examine monthly, reflect weekly, act daily, and live #intentionally.

Purpose is a higher level of living, where you live more for others than you live for yourself.

When I'm working, I get super lazy and I just do something that I'm familiar with.

Quality is timeless: It will clearly define itself.

One positive thought produces millions of positive vibrations.

I believe that to command is to serve and only gives one the right to serve.

Don't judge my brother; he is not a book.

I wouldn't be a very good writer if someone hadn't taught me how to read.

Sometimes it is better to lose and do the right thing than to win and do the wrong thing.