I first wanted to be a psychiatrist. I decided against that in medical school when I discovered that psychiatrists didn't, in reality, do what they did on TV.

These are just things that we don't know, and that's where trust and faith come in.

There's no such thing as useless knowledge. You never know what doors it's going to open up for you.

I'd like to be remembered as someone who got others to recognize the potential that was within them.

I came away with the idea that respect is really the solution. We need to teach young people to respect authority - particularly, respect the law.

I think it's a fallacy that only people in elected office can come up with solutions that solve our problems. I just think maybe there's a different paradigm.

I could easily have decided that life was cruel, that being black meant everything was stacked against me.