I often look for beauty in form and structure, and for ideas..

Since I went no grasse hath growne on my hele..

Things [only] exist once they are represented..

You can hold onto anything to make you carry on..

Take what you got and fly with it..

I've never been competitive with anybody but myself..

I suppose you just feel on an instinctive level if something is honest..

If we meet an honest and intelligent politician, a dozen, a hundred, we say they aren't like politicians at all, and our category of politicians stay….

When you're the ingénue no one is really interested in you for that..

I am not an African. I am an American..

Never be ashamed of what or how you feel... just be honest..

People relate to you a lot more when you're honest and authentic - and that's hard to do in front of millions of people every week..

Politics is a highly tribal business..

No one survives life..

Charge for something and make more than you spend..

If you push too much for somebody that everyone knows is your friend, and that you've worked with before, it can backfire..

Strength is for service, not status.

I don't pull, I just receive..

You can change so many things in your life, but you cannot change where you come from. It's something that you have to deal with: the role everybody ….

Well, it's really important to be honest with the person that you're seeing..

Being honest...[to reporters] Not the worst thing in the world. Don't write that down..