If anything, Calvin Klein is the iconic company in terms of fashion. They do have iconic images for their campaigns.

Until you are somewhat comfortable and confident and embrace who you are, as a person, you can't possibly love somebody else because you don't like yourself that much.

The gym can serve as an excellent place where kids and young men and women can really empty their issues right on the floor.

I was just a very torn child, very wounded in so many areas, with no family support. I happened to the be the fifth child of my family. So everybody was already grown and had left home already.

America has this understanding of Africans that plays like National Geographic: a bunch of Negroes with loincloths running around the plain fields of Africa chasing gazelles.

I always hope for the better for the continent and what I know comes from Africa. Living in the West we feel like we're so removed from the continent that we can somewhat shut off.

I am happy, and I have many reasons to be extra-happy nowadays. Life is calm, and the career is good and taking its course. And things are moving, things are moving ahead.

I hope more people will ask diamond companies to continue changing the way they do business in Africa.

Funny enough, every role that I have had, I try to tone down my accent or speak with better diction.

What matters is what appears in your soul, not what your eyes see and what you can name.

Service and gratitude will fuel your relationship

Imitation is a necessity of human nature.

Adversity always presents opportunities for introspection.

We read the future by the past.

Writing is my primary way of expressing myself.

I want kids. I want a soccer team, and I want a husband.

I don't know which is more nutty. All this stuff I do outside of work, or the stuff I do all week.

To be honest, I've never had an easy relationship with being a writer, though I persist.

You need to have the courage to fail.