Rosa Parks sat so Martin Luther King could walk. Martin Luther King walked so Obama could run. Obama's running so we all can fly.

Don't tell me what was said about me. Tell me why they were so comfortable to say it to you.

Remind yourself. Nobody built like you, you design yourself.

Everybody look at you strange, say you changed Like you work that hard to stay the same.

You not feeling me, fine. It costs you nothing, pay me no mind.

A wise man told me don't argue with fools. Cause people from a distance can't tell who is who.

Don't ever go with the flow. Be the flow.

I seen the worst of the worst. I deserve every blessing I receive I'm from the dirt.

You can pay for school, but you can't buy class

Everybody can tell you how to do it but they never done it

Identity is a prison you can never escape, but the way to redeem your past is not to run from it, but to try to understand it, and use it as a foundation to grow.

He was the most ordinary man in all the world, and yet in her memory he'd become luminous, like the prince in a fairy tale.

If you've delayed achieving your goals, have you ever asked yourself, "What's stopping you?

Destiny stands by sarcastic with our dramatis personae folded in her hand.

Truth may be stretched, but cannot be broken, and always gets above falsehood, as does oil above water."~ Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra ~

In almost everything, experience is more valuable than precept.

The press has no better friend than I am, no one who is more ready to acknowledge . . . its tremendous power for both good and evil.

For a neutral look, avoid anything sparkly or shimmery.

Fortune makes him fool, whom she makes her darling.

No fools are so difficult to manage as those with some brains.

Out of the crooked timber of humanity, nothing completely straight was ever made