I believe excellence is being able to perform at a high level over and over.

Don't tell me what was said about me. Tell me why they were so comfortable to say it to you.

Remind yourself. Nobody built like you, you design yourself.

Everybody look at you strange, say you changed Like you work that hard to stay the same.

You not feeling me, fine. It costs you nothing, pay me no mind.

A wise man told me don't argue with fools. Cause people from a distance can't tell who is who.

Don't ever go with the flow. Be the flow.

I seen the worst of the worst. I deserve every blessing I receive I'm from the dirt.

You can pay for school, but you can't buy class

Everybody can tell you how to do it but they never done it

Identity is a prison you can never escape, but the way to redeem your past is not to run from it, but to try to understand it, and use it as a foundation to grow.

Can’t count on no miracles. Sometimes, you just got to have a plan.

Like Hollywood movies, MTV and blue jeans, fast food has become one of America's major cultural exports.

Food can be mean to me, but I love it anyway.

I find fragrance to be such a mood enhancer and definitely a seduction tool.

The twentieth century saw the emergence of a Churchless Mission and a Missionless Church

Theatre is poetry that rises from the book and becomes human enough to talk and shout, weep and despair

The more real you get, the more unreal everything else is.

The highest compliment one can be paid by another human being is to be told: 'Because of what you are, you are essential to my happiness.'

I want people to consider the idea that the only way of moving forward with their lives is to revisit and confront their issues and their pasts.

In the past, most wars were motivated by the idea of nationhood. Today, however, wars are incited above all using religion as an excuse.