Gangs are a group reaction to helplessness.

If you fall behind, run faster. Never give up, never surrender, and rise up against the odds.

When everyone is included, everyone wins.

Never look down on anybody unless you're helping him up.

Inclusion is not a matter of political correctness. It is the key to growth.

Your children need your presence more than your presents.

You may not be responsible for being down, but you must be responsible for getting up.

If my mind can conceive it, and my heart can believe it, I know I can achieve it.

Tears will get you sympathy, sweat will get you change.

Both tears and sweat are salty, but they render a different result. Tears will get you sympathy; sweat will get you change.

Our flag is read, white and blue, but our nation is a rainbown-red, yellow, brown, black and white - and we're all precious in God's sight.

Every student adheres to strict discipline

Just because something bears the aspect of the inevitable one should not, therefore, go along willingly with it.

I think the number one thing Black women and all Black people should be paying attention to is our health.

I don't think there's a problem with people discovering the music unless there's no way to get to them. That's the problem that you always have.

I think it's almost better to start [acting] at a later age because you have more stuff to drawm from - more life experience. When you start too young, you grow up on a set.

Yeah when I was 7 or 8 my moms would have little parties, and I would play the music.

Modernist architecture and town planning is inimical to human beings ... based on the Darwinian concept that evolution is open ended, that there must always be something new and better.

To be a comedian, you have to have some darkness behind it. I certainly draw on my past, and it helps.

You can borrow my two-carat diamond stud earrings," Aphrodite said. I stopped and looked back at her. "Huh?" She shrugged. "That's as close to a declaration of love as you're gonna get from me.

I always have a goal, even if I keep it to myself. It allows me to keep pushing myself.