No matter what age you are, if you have it and you know it, then people should listen to you.

I'm never pleased with anything, I'm a perfectionist, it's part of who I am.

I try to be kind and generous, and to give to people, and to do what I think God wants me to do.

I'm a black American, I am proud of my race. I am proud of who I am. I have a lot of pride and dignity.

Children have taught me to always be forgiving.

Leinenkugels makes better beer now that Miller bought them. It will license insecure people to like craft beers.

The teacher always used me as an example to the class of good English and good storytelling because we all had to write the same stories. But she used to make me go out front - which I hated - and read my story to the class and I would get huge applause. Not because of who I was but because they truly enjoyed the stories I wrote.