Fortunately, Hollywood is open to change. It's just a question of how to go about doing it.

It's important to focus on what we do best and master one craft at a time.

You cannot find it anywhere, because it is located inside you... happiness is your natural state.

I just said let's get some poets on tv. And when they said that sounded unlikely, I made it worse. I said, no man, I want to put a bunch of black poets on stage, too. Some Latino poets who barely speak English and Asian poets who can't believe how discriminated against they are. It was luck nad being in the right place. I wasn't saying nothing somebody else wasn't saying but they wouldn't hear it from them.

When I started the diamond business, no black person, period, was in it to do what we're trying to do to change the industry. So I like to do things that I see clearly that are in my, you know, scope. And then, I had to figure how I get talented or smart business people around me to execute. That's what I have to do.

Meditation can reintroduce you to the part that's been missing.

The soundtrack in the poetry is the soundtrack from your own heartbeat.