Because I know that hope and fear are connected, I put my mask of hope on.

You have to make every group you come in contact with better.

You can't win enough, you can't have enough money, you can't succeed enough. There is not enough.

We all want to be in love and find that person who is going to love us no matter how our feet smell, no matter how angry we get one day, no matter the things we say that we don't mean.

There's so much negative imagery of black fatherhood. I've got tons of friends that are doing the right thing by their kids, and doing the right thing as a father - and how come that's not as newsworthy?

Begin each day as if it were on purpose.

My grandmother used to always say, 'People need to be worth something.'