I don't see how you can grow as a world without being able to get along with people. So many people is hating out there and it's not making a difference.

As far as having peace within myself, the one way I can do that is forgiving the people who have done wrong to me. It causes more stress to build up anger. Peace is more productive.

I realize I will always be the poster child for police brutality, but I can try to use that as a positive force for healing and restraint.

I saw my hometown burning that day.

Why can't we all just get along?

Waking up sober is a good day. I love being able to wake up and do positive things, to go to the gym.

Anybody can get bigheaded once they know the seat cannot be pulled out from under them.

What I've learned to do is arrest my addiction - arrest it myself, so I don't get arrested.

I'm a religious person. I remember my mom told me: 'Vengeance belongs to God. It's up to him to wreak vengeance.' It's hard for me to get to that point, but that's the work of God.

I know and value what it means to wake up and be alive and to share my story. I'm so blessed to be here and to be able to talk about it.

I sometimes feel like I'm caught in a vise. Some people feel like I'm some kind of hero. Others hate me.

Serious history was the West, and the West was white.

It is our duty to make a leap into the future, and I believe that we will make it.

Have you ever stopped to think that Christianity is the only religion in which the first step is to say, "I'm wrong?"

I was making almost minimum wage on 'The Young and the Restless.' But it was my first job, so I accepted my first quote. I had a great time on it, and it obviously led me to better things.

I don’t care if the world or anyone in it tries to drag me down. Because I know that in the end, they will be the ones left tired from the struggle to hold me back.

All, as they say, that glitters is not gold.

The logical conclusion to a compassionate and respectful relationship to sentient animals is that we stop eating them.

We consciously decide whether to consider people; we fall in love despite ourselves; we entirely fail to fall in love with people who fall in love with us. It is a mightily complicated business.

Our educational system basically strives for normal-which is too bad. Sometimes the exceptional is classified as abnormal and pushed aside.

Write what you need to write, not what is currently popular or what you think will sell.