I couldn't adjust to the racism in Florida.

Living consciously involves being genuine; it involves listening and responding to others honestly and openly; it involves being in the moment.

You don't have to become something you're not to be better than you were.

To simply wake up every morning a better person than when I went to bed.

I never had an occasion to question color, therefore, I only saw myself as what I was... a human being.

I was the only Black person on the set. It was unusual for me to be in a circumstance in which every move I made was tantamount to representation of 18 million people.

A person doesn't have to change who he is to become better.

I do know that I'm responsible not for what happens, but for what I make of it.

I am the me I choose to be.

You don't have to become something that you aren't to become better than you are.

I set my star so high that I would constantly be in motion toward it.

In the 1940s dams were synonymous with progress, and the rivers were to be conquered with the fervour of a pioneer wielding an axe.

It all comes back to the basics. Serve customers the best-tasting food at a good value in a clean, comfortable restaurant, and they'll keep coming back.

I have a conflicted relationship with musicals, because I think the music itself can be so horrendous. It's an industry that relies on appealing to a mainstream culture in order to survive.

And y'all scared I can tell That I'mma get Bucks like Milwaukee, cause like Sam, I ca' sell.

I'm in the moment. I'm always in the moment of life.

We treat our encounters with them with carefree casualness. We are certain that our relationships will naturally take care of themselves.

Study men laying down their lives without hurting anyone else in the cause of their country's freedom.

Stress exacerbates any problem, whether it's diabetes, heart trouble, MS, or whatever.

There's always that sense of because we're so racially defined, if you're trying to cross the boundaries you don't fit into any particular space.

I'm too sensitive. I could not show up to a murder scene and do anything like that. It would break me instantly.