There is no secret to a long marriage - it's hard work...It's serious business, and certainly not for cowards.

Struggle is strengthening. Battling with evil gives us the power to battle evil even more.

Any form of art is a form of power; it has impact, it can affect change. It can not only move us, it makes us move.

I find, in being black, a thing of beauty: a joy; a strength; a secret cup of gladness.

It was a lifetime occupation that kept us too busy to stop and ask if we were happy or not

Any form of art is a form of power.

If we can reach in wih the art and touch the imagination of the child, no matter who, we have affected that child.

One of the things I appreciate more was how important struggle was as the instrument that helped to keep us knit together.

College ain't so much where you been as how you talk when you get back.

Thanks to Scoop, I've learned a lot about how the male mind works, and as a result I've been having nightmares for months.

The diseases which destroy a man are no less natural than the instincts which preserve him.

Life is a lie if you do not find the eternal truth.

I don't care about [being a star]. The most important thing for me now is just do my job.

Nourish the mind like you would your body. The mind cannot survive on junk food.

Any good relationship that I've had with an actor has always been so emotional and personal. If you don't have that then you're just lying.

If any ideology is so serious that you can't have fun while you're doing it, it's probably too serious.

I have too much imagination to be a housewife

I don't think I live the lifestyle that's expected of a quote unquote R&B artist. I'm just not that dude.

The motto I live by is "you can't out-train bad nutrition". You've got to just eat healthy. So like 90 per cent of it is diet, 10 per cent of it is working out.