I defend myself by improving myself.

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.

Lack of wealth cannot take away genuine contentment.

The bold defiance of a woman is the certain sign of her shame, - when she has once ceased to blush, it is because she has too much to blush for.

America is now liberty-conscious. In a single generation it has progressed from being toothbrush-conscious, to being air-minded, to being liberty-conscious.

But by my love and hope I beseech you: do not throw away the hero in your soul! Hold holy your highest hope!

The moment you are old enough to take the wheel, responsibility lies with you.

And I say north is where I want it to be!

The tears of the young who go their way, last a day; But the grief is long of the old who stay.

A single profane expression betrays a man's low breeding.

You can never learn it all and I hope to continue my growth as a person and a musician

Languages differ essentially in what they must convey and not in what they may convey.