I try to basically keep my opinions to myself when it comes to people who are charged with crimes that I don't know anything about.

I know where my lane is, and I know how to stay in my lane. My lane is evolving the consciousness of people.

Every stumble is not a fall, and every fall does not mean failure.

Books were my pass to personal freedom. I learned to read at age three, and there discovered was a whole world to conquer that went beyond our farm in Mississippi.

For everyone of us that succeeds, it's because there's somebody there to show you the way out. The light doesn't always necessarily have to be in your family; for me it was teachers and school.

Every one of us gets through the tough times because somebody is there, standing in the gap to close it for us.

When you’re down in the hole, when that moment comes, it’s really okay to feel bad for a little while — give yourself time to mourn what you think you may have lost — but, then, here’s the key: Learn from every mistake.