Life doesn’t just happen to you. You react to it, and you are not forced to react the way you do. Your heart determines your reactions.

A good short definition of grace is "one-way love.

Nothing can give you peace if there is no calmness in your mind.

Across galaxies of time and spaceTravelling just to see your faceLost amidst the countless starsTo bring me back to where you are.

May your journey through life be vibrant and full of colorful rainbows.

Everyone would like the world always to be in bubble times. But that doesn't happen.

I'm not sure Roosevelt was quite a monster, he just did a poor job on the economics.

I did feel when my mother died if anyone was going to haunt me it would be her. And she hasn't, so I think it is possibly the end.

The way we value black beauty has changed. I'm single now, but back in the slave days, I would have never been single. I'm 6 feet tall and I'm strong. Look at me, I'm a Mandingo.

To choose to live with a dog is to agree to participate in a long process of interpretation, a mutual agreement though the human being holds most of the cards.

I never walk into a place I don't know how to walk out of.

At some point, you have to stop running and turn around and face whoever wants you dead.The hard thing is finding the courage to do it.