There's no idea in the world that is not contained by black life. I could write forever about the black experience in America.

Confront the dark parts of yourself, and work to banish them with illumination and forgiveness. Your willingness to wrestle with your demons will cause your angels to sing.

Have a belief in yourself that is bigger than anyone's disbelief.

All you need in the world is love and laughter. That's all anybody needs. To have love in one hand and laughter in the other.

All of art is a search for ways of being, of living life more fully.

Your demons will cause your angels to sing. Use the pain as fuel.

You get to the point where your demons, which are terrifying, get smaller and smaller and you get bigger and bigger.

The simpler you say it, the more eloquent it is.

Freedom is heavy. You got to put your shoulder to freedom. Put your shoulder to it and hope your back holds up.

Use the pain as fuel, as a reminder of your strength.

You got to be right with yourself before you can be right with anybody else.

Don't make a physical decision on an emotional feeling that will led you to mentally suffering in the end.

The first interview I went on I got at age 5. It was a commercial for First Federal Bank.

Sexy in India is not considered positive. But, with today's crop of fresh faces in the modelling arena, being sexy is an asset.

When you invoke the agent of change called acceptance, you must accept all that you are, all that you've been and all that you will be in the future.

What do you believe in?--In this, that the weights of all things must be determined anew.

Torture is illegal, both in the U.S. and abroad. So - and that is true for the Bush administration and for any other administration.

I think that I shall never scan A tree as lovely as a man. . . . . A tree depicts divinest plan, But God himself lives in a man.

People are never free of trying to be content.

You want what you want, whether or not you think you can have it.

Faith can remove a mountain, but doubt can put it back in place again