God wants you to be delivered from what you have done and from what has been done to you - Both are equally imporant to Him.

The more we focus on who we are in Christ, the less it matters who we were in the past, or even what happened to us.

I am not where I need to be, but, thank God, I am not where I used to be.

Early sweats make up later pleasures

How am I supposed to believe you when you're obviously carrying a fake monogram Gucci Bag?

We go into parenting, and we discover that we don't have the answers. We are at a loss.

Let every emotion be capable becoming an intoxication to you. If what you eat fails to make you drunk, it is because you are not hungry enough.

My education began in the public schools of Wilmington. During most of these years, from about age 10, I also worked at some job or other after school, on weekends, and in the summer months.

Enjoy it while it lasts.

Looking back on my career, I think I've been extremely fortunate to be in the right place at the right time in order to have the influence that I did.

I write about race in America in hopes of undermining the notion of race in America.

Singers, musicians, and songwriters don't want to use the word "acting" because we want it to be more real than that - we want it to come from us: naturally, truly, really.

Thou and I are but the blind instruments of some irresistible fatality, that hurries us along, like goodly vessels driving before the storm, which are dashed against each other, and so perish.