I have a lot of very, very powerful women in my life. My mother being the first.

I came from a divorced mother and father, obviously mixed race.

To be a character actor is to be open, to be a chameleon.

I have from time to time been a double A or triple A personality. I'm not anymore. I'm more lenient on myself.

I love the smell of fried chicken.

I try to be careful with my persuasiveness. When my heart is really behind it, and when I have no ulterior motive, then I know I’m truly persuasive.

I have this vision that I'm really watching each one of my daughters start to become women, and mothers. And this is what's gonna save our planet.

Middle-class people are becoming desperate. It can cause a moral man to break bad.

You can never lead unless you follow.

There is a price to pay for most of our actions. For every action, there is a reaction.

I always wanted to be a boy scout but was too poor. Couldn't do it.

Do not to look at what you are seeing, do not look at the visible work

We forget that God's primary goal ia not changing our situations or relationships so that we can be happy, but changing us through our situations and relationships so that we will be holy.

We must not forget the beauty of humanity. At the core of our being, we must love humanity.

There is no course of life so weak and sottish as that which is managed by order method and discipline.

Legal abortion will never rest easy on this nation's conscience.

Visualizing information is a form of knowledge compression.

All these emotions are coming from one thing - sound. It's not coming from your experiences in life, your childhood. It's related to those things, but it's being triggered by the sound.

Entities can see a certain amount because they are outside of the physical dimensional plane.

I was neither black enough for the black kids or Dominican enough for the Dominican kids. I didn't have a safe category.

True love is a discipline in which each divines the secret self of the other and refuses to believe in the mere daily self.