There are different kinds and degrees of love, and they change over time, ripening and deepening and changing us in the process.

People come in and out of our lives, and each of them helps form who we are and who we are to become.

Be nice to people whether you mean it or not. You never know when a kind word can make a difference in another person’s day – or maybe even his or her life.

Sometimes we laugh to keep from crying, but the important thing is to laugh, every chance we get.

Remember what your mama told you about honey and vinegar: Be nice, and you’ll catch more flies, if nothing else.

Books are the most worthy companions to take with you on this bitter-sweet journey known as life.

Some might say we lose ourselves in a good book. In truth, we find ourselves.

I think whether dance music had exploded in America, I still would've been a DJ a long time. This is my first love.

So often when Black men have to play roles on TV, we're either the noble savage or we're completely a savage, and there's no nuance.

Fashion has always been very generous. Think of what it has done for curing AIDS.

Knowledge is not intelligence.

It's like being on Death Row in an American jail. You are waiting for the door handle to turn, not knowing whether it's a reprieve or just your final breakfast before being executed.

I've been doing a lot of music for films and television for quite a few years.

The world doesn't need an artist who shows reality as it is

There is little favorable to be said about poverty, but it was often an incubator of true friendship.

Let me arise and open the gate, / to breathe the wild warm air of the heath.

We can only give away to others what we have inside ourselves.