America is a white man's country.
You can always chase a dream but it will not count if you never catch it.
A hundred years ago the American white men used to put on a white sheet and use a bloodhound against Negroes. Today they have taken off the white sheet and put on police uniforms and traded in the bloodhounds for police dogs, and they're still doing the same thing.
If Africa wasn't beautiful the white man wouldn't want it.
My family was so poor we were close to eating the holes inside of doughnuts.
Daring to reach, to climb, to crawl, to scratch, to get back up when you've been knocked down, to push forward - ever forward - to forgive. It means sacrificing everything if necessary, to carve out a place for your own existence. It means living.