There is no commerce without community. And there is no community without commerce

Creativity isn't about avoiding frustration. It's about pushing through and coming out the other side.

Leadership is more about purpose than it is about position.

Leaders step up, even when they feel like hiding. And they do so because they care.

If we don’t communicate, we certainly can’t get much done and if we don’t communicate authentically, what we get done is less effective.

Creative freedom is prosperity for the soul.

A catalyst by definition creates a reaction, but itself remains unchanged. Be a positive catalyst for a cause you are passionate about. I dare you to remain unchanged!

I'm not reinventing myself. I'm finding myself. There's a difference!

Knowing how you want your work to look helps you decide who best to work with and where.

Just because others don't understand your journey doesn't mean you're not on the right one. After all, it is YOURS!

Yes, you are creative and in slow, languid times, creativity peers out of your soul like a field mouse from its burrow at night.

We live counterfeit lives in order to resemble the idea we first had of ourselves.

In our so-called democracy we are accustomed to give the majority what they want rather than educate them to understand what is best for them.

Donald Trump is a disrupter, that's why he's winning.

I do not want to be bored listening to music that is muffled and known only to the poet himself.

Well, I've never really been one to try to be politically correct. I just feel truth is truth, and sometimes I probably offend some people.

I've been working in boutique hotels my whole life.

Sure to prove indispensable for the study of Black Power.

I'm about to turn 48, and I think that the closer I get to 50, the more I might be interested in fatherhood. But honestly, I'm not grown up yet myself.

Science has been the absolute bedrock of technological and economic progress in the United States.

The greater I am, the greater shall be my efforts.