Regardless of your race, religion or political affiliation, never hesitate to question those in authority.

The data is going to indicate sadly that when the Obama administration is over, black people will have lost ground in every single leading economic indicator category.

The choices we make about the lives we live determine the kinds of legacies we leave.

Don't envy someone else's gift. Discover your own.

The storm came. Lives were washed away. Ancient pains resurfaced. Now it is time for a sea of change.

Sometimes rejection in life is really redirection.

I believe if we make black America better, we make all of America better.

We need to elect leaders who understand that leadership is about loving and serving people, not about self-advancement.

Poverty and wealth inequality are a form of instability into the future.

Capitalism is like a child: if you want the child to grow up free and productive, somebody's got to look over the shoulder of that child.

Why don't we scale up those things that do work.

Faith can never be lost.It can only be misplaced.

What have I to prove, and to whom, and why? I'm keen enough to want nothing more than to live a simple, humble, unfettered life.

Men in our culture have been spoiled, treated with false reverence instead of respect.

The truth, however ugly in itself, is always curious and beautiful to seekers after it.

Take my verses too serious ya hate me, cause I'm the one to paint a vivid picture, no HD.

Morality is nothing but a struggle for safety

Our Constitution rests on the good sense and the respect of the American people.

Common sense has no place in Quantum Mechanics.

Far more frightening than the thought of dying was the experience of erasure already occurring in my life. My fear of becoming someone who did not count.

I'm a guy that appreciates spontaneity and a woman being genuine and different.