Love demands that I learn how to focus my attention on the needs of those I love.

Communication works for those who work at it.

Blacks are about seven times more likely to live in neighborhoods of concentrated poverty than whites.

By afflictions God is spoiling us of what otherwise might have spoiled us. When he makes the world too hot for us to hold, we let it go.

You can't reinvent yourself for every movie.

I wanted to play music from the age of seven. I suddenly fell in love with it and that's what I was going to do, or to be involved with music. It was just speaking to me at a level that as a seven year old I suddenly realized the world was capable of supporting in my head a lot more than what I was understanding verbally and visually.

The real gift of love is self disclosure.