Tuskegee is a state of mind as it is a place, a place of possibility, hope, promise, self-empowerment, and where dreams come true.

You have to fight to reach your dream. You have to sacrifice and work hard for it.

The best decisions aren't made with your mind, but with your Instinct.

I don't need the best hairstyle or the best body. Just give me a ball at my feet and I'll show you what I can do.

My mother enjoyed old age, and because of her I've begun to enjoy parts of it too. So far I've had it good and am crumbling nicely.

What I do is play soccer, which is what I like.

You can overcome anything, if and only if you love something enough

Gratitude is when memory is stored in the heart and not in the mind.

We are at heart so profoundly anarchistic that the only form of state we can imagine living in is Utopian; and so cynical that the only Utopia we can believe in is authoritarian.

Barcelona is my home and I hope that I stay here for many years.

Soul is a feeling, not a color.

If God had created celery, it would only have two stalks, because that's the most that almost any recipe ever calls for.

I am not a cat man, but a dog man, and all felines can tell this at a glance - a sharp, vindictive glance.

Death is not extinguishing the light it is only putting out the lamp because the dawn has come.

All I ever wanted to do was be able to pay my rent.

If you're smart, you often want a feedback loop so you know if what you've done is... is right.

I have to humbly say people really like the bad guys.

Going to Morocco was massive; that's where I really found music which had the African syncopation and swing mixed with Arabic strains, and together they had this transporting, bittersweet quality.

You can't solve a problem until you address the problem.

There never was a story that was happy through and through.

Being brave doesn't mean you aren't scared. Being brave means you are scared, really scared, badly scared, and you do the right thing anyway.