We are better than we think and not yet what we want to be.

Mistakes are a fact of life. If you are willing to be wrong then you have earned the right to be right.

Young people coming up who are having difficulty with their so-called celebrity need to get back into their lives. It's your life and you can't let the fact that you do something pretty good take away the joy of it.

The trip to Mars can only be understood through Black Americans. I say, the trip to Mars can only be understood through Black Americans.

I hope that, reading 'Rosa,' people will remember their own family and friends and talk about what they did and did not do.

We eat up artists like there's going to be a famine at the end.

I just think she was a wonderful woman. What I think of when I think of Nina [Simone] is someone that I could relate to, who didn't want anything from me, that could relate to me because I didn't want anything from her. It was nice.