She knows who she is, because she knows who she isn't.

Deal with yourself as a individual, worthy of respect and make everyone else deal with you the same way.

Mistakes are a fact of life. It is the response to the error that counts.

Hip-hop is a cultural expression - it's embracing.

The poet Melvin B. Tolson once said "A civilization is judged only in its decline." That made sense to me. I would imagine the same is true for poets and tennis players.

Some say we are responsible for those we love. Others know we are responsible for those who love us.

Black Americans should be given credit for finding probably the perfect weapon; the weapon of the song. And that song continues. Most holocausts don't, so they have this bitterness left over. The phenomenon of the world, as far as Black Americans are considered, is that we are not a bitter people.