Just being born makes you worthy enough to be here

I would say my faith has become strengthened every time I have faced what I considered to be a trial, and there is no greater trial than being 14 and pregnant and not even knowing what it is.

You really can change. Your reality is based on the way you think.

I thought, If I'm gonna run a jazz club, if I've got Miles Davis' posters in my bar, I should at least know what his horn sounds like.

The best way to succeed is to discover what you love and find a way to offer it to others.

Books were my pass to personal freedom. I learned to read at age three, and soon discovered there was a whole world to conquer that went beyond our farm in Mississippi.

Every choice in life either moves you forward or keeps you stuck.