Hana, everything that God made valuable in the world is covered and hard to get to. Where do you find diamonds? Deep down in the ground, covered and protected. Where do you find pearls? Deep down at the bottom of the ocean, covered up and protected in a beautiful shell. Where do you find gold? Way down in the mine, covered over with layers and layers of rock. You've got to work hard to get to them.

Whatever the challenge was, however unattainable the goal may have seemed, I never let anyone talk me out of believing in myself.

I just give lip service to being the greatest. He was the greatest.

Impossible is just a big word thrown around by small men who find it easier to live in the world they've been given than to explore the power they have to change it.

All of us are so mixed. My great-grandfather was white.

Hating people because of their color is wrong. And it doesn't matter which color does the hating. It's just plain wrong.

My health is in the hands of Allah, who has ways of testing us. Whatever happens, happens. I a'int the greatest - it's Allah. I gave myself a job. I work for God.