You don't have to become something you're not to be better than you were.

Living consciously involves being genuine; it involves listening and responding to others honestly and openly; it involves being in the moment.

To simply wake up every morning a better person than when I went to bed.

I never had an occasion to question color, therefore, I only saw myself as what I was... a human being.

I was the only Black person on the set. It was unusual for me to be in a circumstance in which every move I made was tantamount to representation of 18 million people.

A person doesn't have to change who he is to become better.

I do know that I'm responsible not for what happens, but for what I make of it.

I am the me I choose to be.

You don't have to become something that you aren't to become better than you are.

I set my star so high that I would constantly be in motion toward it.

I always wanted to be someone better the next day than I was the day before.

The Lord God is my hope, my joy and my strength.

After all, it's not every day a woman is given a kingdom of dreams.

Be as intellectual as you like about it, but India is brilliantly mad. And if you want to love it, you have to hate it first.

Rejoice with glitters of ashes tonightSparkling for moon's spiced silver biteUpon skin of darkness, loving night moreStorm begins unlocking cold wind's door

I must not undervalue my work simply because I enjoy it. A working artist understands his worth and lives by it.

But there is that about well-intentioned advice that has the opposite effect of the one intended, and causes a Spanish fly of perversity to enter into the hitherto passive soul.

Whatever happens, you can always make it back somehow!

Moderation sees itself as beautiful; it is unaware that in the eye of the immoderate it appears black and sober and consequently ugly-looking.

I just want everybody to know, on a personal note, from me, sincerely, it was all his fault.

One thing you learn about the novel as a form is that it's always smarter than you are.