Racism is very painful. That's life. It never ends.

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’m lonely, and he can see it. Maybe everyone can see it.

Teach us, O Lord, the disciplines of patience, for to wait is often harder than to work.

I've had four amazing men in my life, very strong, powerful, wonderful men. I certainly will have a relationship with someone but I don't think I will get married again.

God is trying to woo us into a love affair with God.

I am crazy about mysterious things.

It is not, believe me, the act of a wise man to say, "I will live." To-morrow's life is too late; live to-day.

We need to ask ourselves a question: Do we trust God? Is he not the same yesterday, today, and forever? And if he is, then how is compromise a strategy? It's not a strategy, it's wholesale surrender.

A primary cause of complexity is that software vendors uncritically adopt almost any feature that users want.

I don't care where we're going; I'm gonna wear a suit all day, every day.

When faced with the choice to Love or Decieve, therein lies the path to the Heroes and Thieves.