I was born two months early, and everyone had given up on me. But my mother insisted on my life.

Living consciously involves being genuine; it involves listening and responding to others honestly and openly; it involves being in the moment.

You don't have to become something you're not to be better than you were.

To simply wake up every morning a better person than when I went to bed.

I never had an occasion to question color, therefore, I only saw myself as what I was... a human being.

I was the only Black person on the set. It was unusual for me to be in a circumstance in which every move I made was tantamount to representation of 18 million people.

A person doesn't have to change who he is to become better.

I do know that I'm responsible not for what happens, but for what I make of it.

I am the me I choose to be.

You don't have to become something that you aren't to become better than you are.

I set my star so high that I would constantly be in motion toward it.

No woman wants to be in submission to a man who isn't in submission to God!

The mouse that fears the trap has already been trapped.

I see best in the dark.

I've never seen an effective boycott that didn't work.

Honesty stands at the gate and knocks, and bribery enters in.

I love my girlfriend to bits. I'd never do anything to hurt her.

I believe in God. I always have. There's a reason that everything happens in life.

Pride goeth before the fall....but you've already fallen, haven't you?

Militarism is in direct competition with people's needs for food, health care, and environmental protection.

I love baseball and I don't want to be part of anything that would cheapen it or vulgarize it.