You have to be careful how you're using the word boycott.

Every company, every boardroom in which I sit, has a plan, and they have objectives, goals, and a process. And to make it work, the pressure and incentive have to come from the top.

Terrorism is not new to black people.

I had a sense of what leadership meant and what it could do for you. So am I surprised that I am sitting up here on the 62nd floor of Rockefeller Plaza? No.

The last job I applied for was to be a bus driver for the Chicago Transit Authority in 1957.

But there will come a time and a place to give back, and each individual will recognize that time and place.

My mother was the president of the PTA at every school I attended.

September 11 stands on its own as a terrible tragedy.

You're in love, that's what your problem is.

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No weapon formed against you shall prosper, and every tongue which rises against you in judgment, you shall condemn.

Unrequited love is a ridiculous state, and it makes those in it behave ridiculously.

Trust your own instincts, go inside, follow your heart. Right from the start. go ahead and stand up for what you believe in. As I've learned, that's the path to happiness.

Most actors want to sink their teeth into amazing material.

I think were struggling with trying to redefine various positions at this point in history. To allow freedom for women, freedom for men, freedom from those sharply defined gender roles.

As big as an elephant is, a whale is still larger. Everything's relative. Even gods have their spot on the food chain.

We're most likely to lose our rights when we allow ourselves to be persuaded to deprive others of theirs.

My mother wanted us to understand that the tragedies of your life one day have the potential to be comic stories the next.

The world is divided between kids who grow up wanting to be their parents and those like us, who grow up wanting to be anything but. Neither group ever succeeds.