I was born two months early, and everyone had given up on me. But my mother insisted on my life.

I do know that I'm responsible not for what happens, but for what I make of it.

The journey has been incredible from its beginning.

In America, it is difficult to be your own man.

I lived in a country where I couldn't live where I wanted to live. I lived in a country where I couldn't go where I wanted to eat. I lived in a country where I couldn't get a job, except for those put aside for people of my colour or caste.

Every new fashion is a form of rebellion.

My father was a tomato farmer. There is the phrase that says he or she worked their fingers to the bone, well, that's my dad. And he was a very good man.