Living consciously involves being genuine; it involves listening and responding to others honestly and openly; it involves being in the moment.

You don't have to become something you're not to be better than you were.

To simply wake up every morning a better person than when I went to bed.

I never had an occasion to question color, therefore, I only saw myself as what I was... a human being.

I was the only Black person on the set. It was unusual for me to be in a circumstance in which every move I made was tantamount to representation of 18 million people.

A person doesn't have to change who he is to become better.

I do know that I'm responsible not for what happens, but for what I make of it.

I am the me I choose to be.

You don't have to become something that you aren't to become better than you are.

I set my star so high that I would constantly be in motion toward it.

I always wanted to be someone better the next day than I was the day before.

NO TRUTH, NO LIGHTNo truth, no equality. No equality, no justice. No justice, no peace. No peace, no love. No love, only darkness.

The best defense is a well-directed fire from your own guns.

If you're in the culture business, you're not so locked in to your class, or you can have fun with it.

It is too much for a husband to have a wife who is a coquette and sanctimonious as well; she should select only one of those qualities.

I turned to the Partition experiences, which were churning in my mind. Then came my first novel Train to Pakistan.

Economic equality of my conception does not mean that every one will literally have the same amount.

What's unique about Washington is that no one's from here. Almost everybody came here to change the world, to make a difference.

Virtue is defined to be mediocrity, of which either extreme is vice.

You're authentic when you're honest.

There's a natural tendency to sanitize and polish any historical icon whether it be George Washington chopping down the cherry tree or Martin Luther King saying, "I have a dream."