Sometimes you can't speak, not because others won't let you, but because you are afraid of what you'll say.

I have tried to be righteous all my life. Yet I have never been content.

But then I realize that even if I did have a soul, it’s not as though someone else would be there. It would only be more of me.

The only chance of success is to trust in your own power.

You always have something left to lose. Until, of course, you die.

People can be miracles.

Everyone dies. The don't all have the chance to see what they wanted most. At least I've seen the Above. At least I've known True.

So much of life is in the smallness of moments...but they are harder to mark. So we need the grander celebrations and occasions. People like to feel significant

Live for your dreams, not your memories.

A company's success no longer depends primarily on its ability to raise investment capital. Success depends on the ability of its people to learn together and produce new ideas.

To become conscious of what is horrifying and to laugh at it is to become master of that which is horrifying

The invisibility of work and workers in the digital age is as consequential as the rise of the assembly line and, later, the service economy.

I guess when it comes to this privileged White racist feminist movement they respect someone who treats them rough: John Wayne. Frank Sinatra. Phillip Roth.

I don't have anything to prove anymore. I don't have a record deal, no one has any expectations, I'm in a position of freedom. I don't need anyone's approval.

I want every family in America to have a carpet on the floor and a picture on the wall. After bread, you've got to have a picture on the wall.

To be an artist, you have to nurture the things that most people discard.

Next to God, love is the word most mangled in every language. The highest form of regard between two people is friendship, and when love enters, friendship dies.

Hip hop culture has done more for race relations in American than anything since Martin Luther King. And I really believe that.