In some states, not even 50 percent of black boys finish high school.
I think when I stop fighting, I die in a sense.
I’m very musically curious and I love new experience. I’m an adventurer. Some people want to sort of stay in a safe zone and repeat the same things and give them more depth, and I want to do new things all the time.
Competition’s always been a product of American lifestyle.
Losing teaches you something.
Having to try and going through the trials and tribulations to actually overcome, to get there to win, to triumph, that’s what makes life interesting.
My acting gives me my self-worth.
I wanted to be a theater actress, and initially, I wanted to work in musical theater.
I think a lot of people who go to drama school have this ease with the text and they all have five monologues that they know by heart, and I never had that. I’ve done Chekov and I’ve done Moliere and I’ve done classic stuff.
I fear that we are living in a society, living in a world where forgiving people is becoming more and more difficult to do.
Troubled times do call for troubled songs, songs that unsettle our souls and our spirits unapologetically.
Fear, fear, breeds hopelessness. When you’re afraid, you don’t know what to believe in, you don’t know what to hold on to. You’re struggling to find something to believe in.
Music is the soundtrack of our lives, it’s essential for our lives.
There are enough bad films coming out of this town already without the process being more democratized. I’m a guy who loves democracy. I’m all for democratizing any process, but I think there is a price to pay for that.
I love my cross-sectioned, cross-cultural audience. Some of them are doing better than the average guy, but my audience has always been people who are struggling to stay in the middle class.
Struggling to stay in the middle class, and I love that. That’s me and my dad and my family.
I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality. That is why right temporarily defeated is stronger than evil triumphant.
If the soul is left in darkness, sins will be committed. The guilty one is not he who commits the sin, but the one who causes the darkness.
Well, if that’s the case, then it’s not silly to see rejection as a gift whose contents and character may not be known until a later time. But that doesn’t mean that the gift isn’t real. It doesn’t mean that the gift isn’t precious. And it doesn’t mean that the gift isn’t helping us to subtly shift our thinking from willful expectation to grateful acceptance. We want our journey to be directed by God, not our adamant insistence that things go our way.” “I may be guilty of that very tendency,” I.
The old African proverb says, ‘The ax forgets; the tree remembers.’ I saw how horrifically it injured us to identify with our oppressors. If we were to keep our souls whole, we couldn’t afford to forget. We had to remember.
All he could think of was how all people require attention. All people require respect. All people require acknowledgment. All people require love.