Barack Obama has domesticated the left in such a way that we feel as if we have no alternative but him...I refuse to accept that.

There's a number of hip-hop artists who are highly talented but politically retrograde.

The black church often has reinforced certain self images that are damaging to black peoples' beauty, black peoples' confidence.

Death is always a constant possibility and probability and of course an inevitability, as well.

The greatest gift you can give someone is the gift of inspiration.

You have to have a habitual vision of greatness ... you have to believe in fact that you will refuse to settle for mediocrity. You won't confuse your financial security with your personal integrity, you won't confuse your success with your greatness or your prosperity with your magnanimity ... believe in fact that living is connected to giving.

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