If your dreams don't match your actions, you can either change your dreams or change your actions.

If you want to look good in front of thousands, you have to out work thousands in front of nobody.

I just want to keep working hard, stay humble, and keep trying to win games.

Anytime odds get stacked up against me, I feel like it's in me to beat it

Their world seemed made of little losses. she was always having to say goodbye, part with something. A brilliant sunset. A blossom. A sweet feeling.

Bodies lay in the sun. Bodies stood in the sun.

I wear my wrinkles like battle scars, having earned every last one slaying life’s dragons. They boast of my victories and some defeats while their beauty is a wealth of wisdom gained.

If you are in a spaceship that is traveling at the speed of light, and you turn on the headlights, does anything happen?

I have nothing definite to apologize for; I'm just sorry about everything in general.

Black women, whose experience is unique, are seldom recognized as a particular social-cultural entity and are seldom thought to be important enough for serious scholarly consideration.

I just have a thing in my brain that when I'm about to do something that's genuine or authentic, I think of it in song form. I'll be like, 'Yo, this is a human emotion that no one talks about.'

If humor is not present, I tend to be concerned about the artist, or distrusting of what they're presenting - unless there is an obvious tragedy being talked about.

There was an unbelievable amount of animosity in that war [for America Independence] which people have forgotten, which was still around 50 years later.

I demand from you in the name of your principles the rights which I shall deny to you later in the name of my principles.