I am not competing with anyone other than myself. I want to be excellent at whatever I do.

I believe that one can never leave home. I believe that one carries the shadows, the dreams, the fears and the dragons of home under one's skin, at the extreme corners of one's eyes and possibly in the gristle of the earlobe.

The plague of racism is insidious, entering into our minds as smoothly and quietly and invisibly as floating airborne microbes enter into our bodies to find lifelong purchase in our bloodstreams.

I did then what I knew how to do. Now that I know better, I do better.

People don't always remember what you say or even what you do, but they always remember how you make them feel.

I do not trust people who don't love themselves and yet tell me, 'I love you.' There is an African saying which is: Be careful when a naked person offers you a shirt.

Try to live your life in a way that you will not regret years of useless virtue and inertia and timidity.