Those who have the most wealth and the most property, their children have the first, the best, and the most.

If you fall behind, run faster. Never give up, never surrender, and rise up against the odds.

When everyone is included, everyone wins.

Never look down on anybody unless you're helping him up.

Inclusion is not a matter of political correctness. It is the key to growth.

Your children need your presence more than your presents.

You may not be responsible for being down, but you must be responsible for getting up.

If my mind can conceive it, and my heart can believe it, I know I can achieve it.

Tears will get you sympathy, sweat will get you change.

Both tears and sweat are salty, but they render a different result. Tears will get you sympathy; sweat will get you change.

Our flag is read, white and blue, but our nation is a rainbown-red, yellow, brown, black and white - and we're all precious in God's sight.

A classic is a book that has never finished saying what it has to say.

What's your name? Or is that taboo?--Cinnamon, Hot, Deadly Desire

Freedom is never given; it is won.

I don't know if you actually get something out of writing poetry. I think poetry is an autonomous muse that decides to come and sit on your couch.

I exercise at home - light cardio and yoga.

You have to remind people of their own struggles. It's a responsibility.

Wine is a bride who brings a great dowry to the man who woos her persistently and gracefully.

What is firmly rooted cannot be pulled out

You pick me up and brush me off and tell me I'm okay, sometimes that's just what we need to get us through the day.

Justice is lame as well as blind, amongst us.