Sometimes, when you grow up in one of these poverty-stricken neighborhoods where the educational system isn't the best, you don't realize that you have any choices.

God is so good. Always follow your dreams, own your Purpose! Embrace God's Anointing

Giving back, doing motivational speeches and stuff like that, that's always made me feel good. If you repeatedly go out there, and you are the change that you want to see, then that's what you are.

The one thing you absolutely need is the one thing you can never lose: God's presence and love for you. Just have to talk to him.

You can do anything as long as you don't stop believing. When it is meant to be, it will be. You just have to follow your heart.

You should never look at somebody and say, 'I wish I had their life,' because you never really know what struggles they're going through.

I think people should have fun. And don't get so down on yourself. Enjoy life and be the best person you can be.

Sometimes things seem too good to be true.

It's very fun to be single, because you know what happens? You find yourself. You understand what it means to love yourself, instead of putting all this energy into give-and-tug in a relationship.

If you focus more on the inside, you'll feel just as great about the outside. I feel attractive when I'm doing good and helping people.

Follow your heart's truth with no need for personal gain other than the feeling produced when doing what you truly love.

What I've learned in the last few years is that I am merely a storyteller.

Black folks are judged by quantity, not quality. It's a decimal point or figure. How different is that from slavery? There's no moral code, it's just about successful business for America.

Too many whites still see blacks as a group apart.

I've always wanted to have a neighbor just like you. I've always wanted to live in a neighborhood with you.

Life is not a bowl full of cherries, there's good and bad stuff.

Sometimes the coaches tell me to be selfish, but my game won't let me be selfish.

Challenge yourself, its fine not to be a totally finished person.

Money should never be separated from values. Detached from values it may indeed be the root of all evil. Linked effectively to social purpose it can be the root of opportunity.

No misery or bad situation is ever infinite or final until we make a conscious decision for it to be so. ~ Inferno

The human race in the course of time has taken the liberty of softening and softening Christianity until at last we have contrived to make it exactly the opposite of what it is in the New Testament.