If the image one holds of one's self contains elements that don't square with reality, one is best advised to let go of them, however difficult that may be.

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.

With every step you take ask yourself, what do I really want?

I’m a threat to anything that hurts Wonderland, including indifference.

It is strange what a contempt men have for the joys that are offered them freely.

By the by, who ever knew a man who never read or wrote neither who hadn't got some small back parlour which he would call a study!

Even the bad books I write are satisfying. I'm my least critical reader.

Where a majority are united by a common sentiment, and have an opportunity, the rights of the minor party become insecure.

What are you smiling at?’ - ‘Oh, nothing much. Just my hero

Life really went backwards. My parents lost everything, all their savings, because we had to run from the Nigerian side to the Biafran side. We were Igbos.

This is getting funny, but there ain't nobody laughing.