When you're in a relationship you want it to work. My parents did, I did. But we are not taught how to make it work.

It just works better for me to discriminate between which thoughts are mine and which come from elsewhere, before I even talk about them or express them - it helps to keep me focused on my path.

The reason why you don't see people looking like me is because I don't encourage that. I encourage you to be you.

I lived in New York for maybe a year and a half, from '95 to '97, but I live in Dallas. My whole family is there.

I encourage breaking free of self inflicted holding pens. I encourage the use of intelligence in every decision. I encourage creating.

Whereas I want everything to be peaceful during a birth, I take the total opposite approach when I'm helping someone come to terms with leaving this place - I play Richard Pryor records.

I have an organization called BLIND [Beautiful Love Incorporated Nonprofit Development], so named because even though my interest is in the black community, because that's where I grew up and that's where I'm most skilled in fixing things, it doesn't end there.