Support and encouragement are found in the most unlikely places.

A mother isn’t the person who births you; it’s the person who rears you and shows you love.

Individually, every grain of sand brushing against my hands represents a story, an experience, and a block for me to build upon for the next generation.

Globalization by the way of McDonald’s and KFC has captured the hearts, the minds, and from what I can see through the window, the growing bellies of the folks here.

Hip-hop...has been the proverbial key that's opened the door for me to roam this breathtaking planet.

I wish she'd said something different, but patriarchy is as prevalent around the world as racism and xenophobia are. We can't hide from it, not even here.

Foisting an identity on people rather than allowing them the freedom and space to create their own is shady.

The truth is usually left for us to hunt and gather independently, if we are so inclined.

Are Latino-Americans white? Black? Other? Illegal aliens from Mars? Or are we the very face of America?

I have never bought into the idea that blood is thicker than water. Love and respect are meant to be earned from our children, our spouses, our families, and our friends.

If Aphrodite chills at home in Cyprus for most of the year, then Fez must be the goddess’s playground

Our stories must be written, shared and communicated.

It is eternity now. I am in the midst of it. It is about me in the sunshine

What would I have done if I wasn't an actor? Probably rob banks.

Pain has an element of blank

You are the stars and the world is watching you. By your presence, you send a message to every village, every city, every nation. A message of hope. A message of victory.

Without friends the world is but a wilderness.

Within neoliberal narratives, youth are mostly defined as a consumer market, a drain on the economy, or stand for trouble.

The drama's done. Why then here does any one step forth? — Because one did survive the wreck.

Have not all past human beings parted, And must not all the present, one day part?

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