Lukewarm acceptance is more bewildering than outright rejection.

If you can't fly then run, if you can't run then walk, if you can't walk then crawl, but whatever you do you have to keep moving forward.

Forgiveness is not an occasional act, it is a constant attitude.

The time is always right to do what is right.

I have decided to stick with love. Hate is too great a burden to bear.

The time is always right to do the right thing.

You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.

The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.

Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.

A man dies when he refuses to stand up for that which is right. A man dies when he refuses to stand up for justice. A man dies when he refuses to take a stand for that which is true.

It's not the violence of the few that scares me, it's the silence of the many

When people tell you that you can’t live your way, don’t believe them.

Don't give me books for Christmas I already have a book.

If you're going to establish a certain level of unreality than you have to deal with it

A song is anything that can walk by itself.

Well, I'm more lopsided than a one-legged badger.

My first introduction to African music was by my mother, who bought the 'Pata Pata' album by the great Miriam Makeba when it came out. Now that is an album. What a voice.

Throughout life, from childhood, from school until we die, we are taught to compare ourselves with another; yet when I compare myself with another I am destroying myself.

Because I was the blonde, I was promoted as the video vixen.

Portraying Pocahontas' story well was important to me because she was a real person and these were real events in her life.

I do then with my friends as I do with my books. I would have them where I can find them, but I seldom use them.