So much of life, it seems to me, is determined by pure randomness.

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.

Most of the most important experiences that truly educate cannot be arranged ahead of time with any precision.

The coffee will be ready in a jitney.

My mother always told me that any talent is a gift of God and I always believed it. If I quit, I would just live in front of the television and get fat and die pretty soon.

Find something you’re passionate about and you know, do something.

And if you were a spirit, and time did not bind you, and patience and love were all you knew, then there you would wait for someone to return, and the story to unfold.

The court's recent decisions have made life more difficult for the democratic institutions that perform the day- to-day work of our nation.

Abstinence is easier than temperance.

It's not fair!" (Ryssa) Because life was ever about fairness. Oh, to be as naive as his sister.

The worth of a child born and bred in Nigeria cannot be compared to that in the United States.

Possessing by letting go of things was a secret of ownership unknown to youth.