People of color, particularly African Americans, feel the stigma more keenly. In a race-conscious society, some don't want to be perceived as having yet another deficit.

As I grow older part of my emotional survival plan must be to actively seek inspiration instead of passively waiting for it to find me.

When we finally stop asking America to love us and begin to love ourselves, we will prosper as a people.

Forgiveness is the key to the recovery of the soul.

Knowing who you are begins in the mind.

Discipline is the servant of inspiration.

The music was as much a gift as sunshine, as rain, as any blessing ever prayed for.

You live your life between your ears.

My color is my joy and not my burden.

Race, redemption and healing - thats my thing.

African Americans know about racism, but I don't think we really know the causes. I decided it's first of all a family problem.

Introspective reflections that might otherwise be liable to stall are helped along by the flow of the landscape...

shrimp and green peppers are shriveling in my refrigerator

Very few things in life matter.

My Christian faith is my backbone

I had some really great experiences doing overdubs.

I love when a director says, "I don't know."

As for my personal life, I'd love to start a family of my own. I think I'd make a great dad, and I think shortly I would make a great husband.

I never did cheesecake; I just used my hair.

The surest sign that a man has a genuine taste of his own is that he is uncertain of it.