Don't envy someone else's gift. Discover your own.

I believe if we make black America better, we make all of America better.

We need to elect leaders who understand that leadership is about loving and serving people, not about self-advancement.

For me, like when you've put yourself out there emotionally, physically, and you've really put yourself on the line, for me, that means I've really done something.

I'm always fascinated by people from the Midwest, because it is so different than Hollywood, who discover at some point that they want to be in Hollywood.

I think when I stop fighting, I die in a sense.

We come to know who we really are in life during the dark and difficult and desolate days of our journey.