I don't even like the word politics. It implies something underhanded and I think we need less government.

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.

Architects design houses. I live in a home.

The thing is that as you grow through life, the pursuit of art and the pursuit of new ideas, all these things keeps your mind elastic.

It becomes more and more difficult to avoid the idea of black men as subjects of not just racial profiling but of an insidious form of racial obliteration sanctioned by silence.

Whether I'm at the hangar or at the airport or on an airplane, I get respect. And that's the best part of my day.

I'm a character actor, so as a character actor, I'm always looking for something interesting.

We heap up around us things that we do not need as the crow makes piles of glittering pebbles.

Why the devil was my husband positively grinning - and with what looked remarkably like relief?

In love it is only the commencement that charms. I am not surprised that we find pleasure in frequently recommencing.

The time has come to turn to God and reassert our trust in Him for the healing of America - our country is in need of and ready for a spiritual renewal.