We have to truly become a united people of the United States of America, and divisiveness cannot make that happen.

Sometimes, I feel I am really blessed to be blind because I probably would not last a minute if I were able to see things.

It feels better to love than to hate.

Rap to me is a modern blues. But until we really confront the truth, we are going to have a Tupac or Eminem or Biggie Smalls to remind us about it - and thank God.

Disrespecting one's ethnicity or their religious preference, on and on and on, if they have a disability, is not anything that has to do with when we talk about democracy. Equality.

My father really was not the dominant person who raised the family, it was my mother who raised the family.

We're stuck in fear and in not wanting to cross that most important bridge of understanding that we're more alike or not. We all cry, we all laugh.