It doesn't take a lot of strength to hang on. It takes a lot of strength to let go.

I'm secure in who I am. I don't need the validation of those that would say, you have to be a certain thing in order to be accepted. I'm comfortable going against the grain if I need to.

Everyone tries to define this thing called Character. It's not hard. Character is doing what's right when nobody's looking.

You take a poor black child. Give him a good education, tell him he's somebody, that God didn't create junk when he created him, and that black child will create his own affirmative action.

Everything I am I owe to my faith and secondly to parents who were old school.

My father taught that the only helping hand you're ever going to be able to rely on is the one at the end of your sleeve.

I don't know if anybody has moved up the ladder more quickly than I have.