Struggling to stay in the middle class, and I love that. That's me and my dad and my family.

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.

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

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.

In a war the most dangerous thing is to understand the enemy. To understand is to forgive.

Hidden inside every flower are seeds of imagination, destiny and future dreams.

Just going through a marriage and a divorce - which I essentially did by 21 - will give you an insane amount of perspective on life.

Politicians can forgive almost anything in the way of abuse; they can forgive subversion, revolution, being contradicted, exposed as liars, even ridiculed, but they can never forgive being ignored.

I think that if you don't enjoy doing something you are not going to be good at it.

If you're going to play at all, you're out to win. Baseball, board games, playing Jeopardy, I hate to lose.

I believe you can't be an actor if you haven't had the feeling of being abandoned as a child.

When I first started, I was kind of surprised that anyone would ever hire me at all. So I took everything that I was offered.

So it is the fear, weakness, selfishness, and cowardice of onlookers that permit evil behavior to persist.

Truths are more than imagination; they are real. Yet their origin is a thought in the mind of God.