It's amazing. I can do anything. And do it well. Any good thing, I can do it. That's why I am who I am, yes, because God loves me and I'm amazed at it. I'm grateful for it.

I love wisdom. And you can never be great at anything unless you love it. Not be in love with it, but love the thing, admire the thing. And it seems that if you love the thing, and you don't just want to possess it, it will find you.

I think music is one of the hero/sheroes of the African-American existence.

You only are free when you realize you belong no place - you belong every place - no place at all. The price is high. The reward is great.

I don't think there's such a thing as autobiographical fiction. If I say it happened, it happened, even if only in my mind.

I'm convinced of this: Good done anywhere is good done everywhere.

Each one of us has lived through some devastation, some loneliness, some weather superstorm or spiritual superstorm, when we look at each other we must say, I understand. I understand how you feel because I have been there myself. We must support each other and empathize with each other because each of us is more alike than we are unalike.