When you have a good mother and no father, God kind of sits in. It's not enough, but it helps.

I was born and raised in St. Louis, and this little town, eight blocks away, place no one ever heard of, a black man there commands the attention of the world for months? That ain't my world.

Once we used to have to crank up our cars, now you can pop it on from inside your house. Everything has changed except how we get freedom.

Poor is a state of mind you never grow out of, but being broke is just a temporary condition.

One of the things I keep learning is that the secret of being happy is doing things for other people.

When I go through the airport and see white women walking through the airport barefooted, like athlete's feet don't exist, there's something wrong.

Everything we do we should look at in terms of millions of people who can't afford it.