This administration and these folk who run Washington are no more interested in our welfare and our well being than the man on the moon. And we have got to start taking our destiny into our hands.

The data is going to indicate sadly that when the Obama administration is over, black people will have lost ground in every single leading economic indicator category.

The choices we make about the lives we live determine the kinds of legacies we leave.

Don't envy someone else's gift. Discover your own.

The storm came. Lives were washed away. Ancient pains resurfaced. Now it is time for a sea of change.

Sometimes rejection in life is really redirection.

I believe if we make black America better, we make all of America better.

We need to elect leaders who understand that leadership is about loving and serving people, not about self-advancement.

Regardless of your race, religion or political affiliation, never hesitate to question those in authority.

Poverty and wealth inequality are a form of instability into the future.

Capitalism is like a child: if you want the child to grow up free and productive, somebody's got to look over the shoulder of that child.

Modern poetry, for me, began not in English at all but in Spanish, in the poems of Lorca.

People will oppose your progress. They will remind you of your past failures, belittle you, etc. The only way to stand against such opposition and belittling is to knowthe reason for your existence.

Why Worry?If its better when simpler.

Sisters, brothers and the whities, Blacks and the crackers, Police and their backers, They're all political actors

I adore not being me. I'm not very good at being me. That's why I adore acting so much.

I came to the conclusion that unless you are ruled properly, you cannot move forward. Everything else is second. Everything.

Only a fool trips on what’s behind him. – Unknown

Any business that does not innovate will fail over time.

It is extremely difficult to say how long the process actually took to finally achieve my fragrance, Boudoir, because there was a lot of time waiting around for other people.

People learn more from observation that they do from conversation.