While keeping an open mind, beware, politicians will gladly fill it with garbage.

If you're handed sour grapestake off your shoes and start dancing

Don't point to the darkness, but to the stars.

Screaming and repeating lies makes them neither true nor more believable.

When we constantly meditate on another's faults, it is because we are neglecting our own unhealed wounds.

Was that tragedy? Or was that comedy? Was there really any difference?

Sometimes, time takes you the direction it wants you to travel. -Finn Foster

When fear rushed in, I learned how to hear my heart racing but refused to allow my feelings to sway me. That resilience came from my family. It flowed through our bloodline.

I spent a lot of time in London when I was growing up and I've always picked up accents without even really meaning to. It used to get me into trouble as a child.

The critics could never mortify me out of heart - because I love poetry for its own sake, - and, tho' with no stoicism and some ambition, care more for my poems than for my poetic reputation.

It is hard for a black man to just be himself. We spend so much time in defense of something that is indefensible because there is nothing to defend.

Every man - at least once in his lifetime - has visited the silent and dark street of disappointment.

Every gun regulation that President [Barack] Obama has advocated for, California has already. And it didn't stop terrorism.