I do believe that we're all God's children.

The way to bring about change is to be proactive and active.

One thing I've learned is be comfortable in your skin, and more importantly, be comfortable in your shoes.

I can only live in my truth.

To be silent is to be passive.

As you make your way along life's tumultuous highways, it's important to note that you should always carry a map, have plenty of fuel in the tank, and take frequent rest stops.

You have to create your own path and I'm up to the challenge.

The things that scare you only make you better and stronger.

I just know that the one thing that we all have in common is challenges. No one lives a challenge free life.

Everything happens when it's supposed to.

There are enough negative images of Black women out there and I did not want to portray Dorothy Vaughn in any stereotype. I wanted to make sure that her integrity was preserved.

I know that I sound like the joker, but the joker is a great character.

Life is not always what we think it is.

How many roads must a man walk down.. Before you can call him a Man.

What is your name?" Why?" So I can mark your grave.

Those who attempt to level never equalize

a man who hates music can’t be trusted, I always say.

In cities like New York and Austin, there's much more of a social context for music than in other places.

Hendersonville is home because I live there and I work there. But when I come back to Pennsylvania and see the crowds and the landscape, it's such a rush. It just feels like home.

One of the things that draws writers to writing is that they can get things right that they got wrong in real life by writing about them.

The world thus appears as a complicated tissue of events, in which connections of different kinds alternate or overlap or combine and thereby determine the texture of the whole.