The desire to reach for the stars is ambitious. The desire to reach hearts is wise.

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

My son is the best thing that ever happened to me. And through me - to a lot of people.

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

I wish that we could look into each other's faces, in each other's eyes, and see our own selves. I hope that the children have not been so scarred by their upbringing that they only think fear when they see someone else who looks separate from them.

I keep on dying, Because I love to live

Love is that condition in the human spirit so profound that it empowers us to develop courage; to trust that courage and build bridges with it; to trust those bridges and cross over them so we can attempt to reach each other.