Death, I've dreamed of it, I've desired it, but what real happiness can come from it?

Faith is why I'm here today and faith is why I made it through.

You know my name, not my story. You've heard what I've done, but not what I've been through.

I might live a life of struggle but I will not live a life of defeat!

In life I will fall, I will backslide, but mark my word I will never give up.

The kind of individual that you see on the outside, is never the same person on the inside.

Anger makes you smaller, while forgiveness forces you to grow beyond who you were.

Opportunities are born by learning!

Trust and believe, and you will achieve.

We're all made the same but then born to change. Which then don't make us the same.

Neglected but Undefeated I stand today living the life I was told I would never live all because my faith grew.

I think "post-racial" is a dangerous trap. You can fall into complacency and give your complicity a much more dangerous character.

If we want a beloved community, we must stand for justice, have recognition for difference without attaching difference to privilege.

A successful artist of any kind has to work so hard that she is justified in refusing to lay down her sceptre until she is placed on the bier.

Time is everything; five minutes make the difference between victory and defeat.

Analysis and synthesis are both as necessary to the thinking spirit as inspiration and expiration to the organism.

So great an advantage is given to sin and Satan by your temper and disposition, that without extraordinary watchfulness, care, and diligence, they will prevail against your soul.

I love Edith Wharton. And I love old New York. Anything to do with New York.

The thing you can always rely on, your core person, comes from your family's attention and love.

To live our lives fully, to work whole heartily, to refuse directly what we can't swallow, to accepts the mystery in all matters of meaning- this is the ultimate adventure.

And when this grand canvas, our life, is finished, may the world in some small or large way be a better place.