I try to speak my points of view about black America, and how I feel about black men and the role that black men should play in their lives with their children and in their lives with their women.

There are four principles we need to maintain: First, read the Word of God. Second, consume the Word of God until it consumes you. Third believe the Word of God. Fourth, act on the Word.

Some people read their Bibles in Hebrew, some in Greek; I like to read mine in the Holy Ghost.

Great faith is the product of great fights. Great testimonies are the outcome of great tests. Great triumphs can only come out of great trials.

A man is in a great place when he has no one to turn to but God.

There is something about believing God that will cause Him to pass over a million people to get to you

There is nothing impossible with God. All the impossibility is with us when we measure God by the limitations of our unbelief.

God wants us so badly that he has made the condition as simple as he possibly could: Only believe.

The devil knows if he can capture your thought life he has won a mighty victory over you.

If you seek nothing but the will of God, He will always put you in the right place at the right time.

To hunger and thirst after righteousness is when nothing in the world can fascinate us so much as being near God.

Joblessness opens the door for greater opportunities

When a child, my dreams rode on your wishes, I was your son, high on your horse, My mind a top whipped by the lashes Of your rhetoric, windy of course.

His heart, like mine, was ticking off the time allotted to his small restless body.

Meditation practice is neither holding on nor avoiding; it is a settling back into the moment, opening to what is there.

The whole universe is based on rhythms. Everything happens in circles, in spirals.

I know when I was a kid I ate a beetle. I ate a beetle because I thought it was licorice.

I always say the work is not a celebration as such, because that's sometimes just as weird and excluding and perverse.

Dare to believe in the reality of your assumption and watch the world play its part relative to to its fulfillment.

I'm not fashionable at all, and the fact that I manage to sell pictures without being fashionable is thanks to my gallery.

For me, a poem is an opportunity to kind of interrogate myself a little bit.