I see people whose spirits are not broken, who continue to work for justice. That makes me feel alive, when I witness their work, and then I witness some of their dreams come to fruition.

I'm a little bit antisocial and I recently discovered that I'm introverted. But the love between people makes me alive.

Artists and celebrities are citizens, and as such you have a responsibility to keep fighting for justice because there are monolithic power structures and systemic oppression out there.

Falling, falling, falling, falling down. Look yourself in the eye before you drown.

Love is selflessness and self-fullness; it can only be known deeply with an open, vulnerable heart.

I don't think any human being is truly free. We're so tethered to our own insecurities and hampered by our fears and our prejudices. I think it's human nature that we're never going to be free.

The prize is always worth the rocky ride.

Begin my studies with the paper and this pencil and i'm working through the grammar of my fears.

It's in our blind trust that love will find us, just like it has before.

You set up your place in my thoughts, moved in and made my thinking crowded.

You have to laugh at yourself, because you'd cry your eyes out if you didn't.

When you do great things, Expect greater things. None of your works are done in vain. You will achieve what you set forth to accomplish!

Life is about showing up, so is writing. That’s why I sit at my desk every day and dance my fingers across the keyboard

People try to live within their income so they can afford to pay taxes to a government that can't live within its income.

I came here knowing nobody. I worked clubs as a singer and even the doors a few times before I landed some TV roles.

[Black people] come into the world exactly like you. It's just that there are circumstances in the culture that are dictated and put on our lives that we have to fight against.

East of the sun and west of the moon.

At the age of 16, something happened with my finger and the doctor told me, you never can be a organist or pianist, so think about what you do with music.

The more you worry about being applauded by others and making money, the less you'll focus on doing the great work that will generate applause. And make you money.

Wouldn't it be great if our national news media had standards as high as the National Football League's?

Let him who is without guilt cast the first stone. A trap. Because then he will be no longer without guilt.