I wasn't the cutest or the most talented, but I could get through the question-and-answer period.

Move with the flow. Don't fight the current. Resist nothing. Let life carry you. Don't try to carry it.

Nothing about my life is lucky. Nothing. A lot of grace, a lot of blessings, a lot of divine order, but I don't believe in luck. For me, luck is preparation meeting the moment of opportunity. There is no luck without you being prepared to handle that moment of opportunity. Every single thing that has ever happened in your life is preparing you for the moment that is to come.

Every birthday, you decide whether to mark it the end of your greatest days or the beginning of your finest hour.

We're all looking for the highest, fullest expression of ourselves as a human being.

When I read poetry, I read it aloud. It's so much better that way.

There are still generations of people, older people, who were born and bred and marinated in it, in that prejudice and racism, and they just have to die.