I think it's important for people to just stay encouraged, and stay uplifted.

You can't just place your faith and your hope in one system, because when that system fails you, what do you do?

There is only one way to come out of that dark place, and that is through the power of prayer.

When you are telling your story, hold your own ink pen. Don't let anybody else tell your story.

It is a right to have a firearm to protect yourself. But it is not your right to be irresponsible. At the end of the day, it is not the gun that kills you, it is the irresponsible person that does.

America will never move forward if you decide to leave a nation of people behind.

Sometimes you just have to be by yourself, you need a little space and time.

As an African-American parent, we have to really, really worry about our children and how our children are perceived in America.

...that's the essence of me - I don't think, I feel - at best, I think-feel...

Greatness is so often a courteous synonym for great success.

Marriage is a book of which the first chapter is written in poetry and the remaining chapters in prose.

If you're looking for immediate rewards, you're only looking for the money.

If you're going to make a mistake, make it loud so everybody else sounds wrong.

Take here the grand secret; if not of pleasing all, yet of displeasing none, and court mediocrity, avoid originality, and sacrifice to fashion.

I tend to write about my anxieties - it's what I'm afraid will happen. And I write a story working it out.

I've come to learn that there is a real difference between men and women. It's genetic.

Our pure awareness is not male or female.