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..

Heterosexuality has been forcibly and subliminally imposed on women. Yet everywhere women have resisted it, often at the cost of physical torture, im….

Poverty is not intrinsically a trap, otherwise we would all still be poor..

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

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

Poverty became something one could see and experience firsthand, no matter where one was on the economic ladder; it became something you could viscer….

Too often the media assumes that "poverty" is an African American or a Latino issue. Of course, that's nonsense. While a higher percentage of the Afr….

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 ….

The day someone quits school he is condemning himself to a future of poverty..

You can't lift people out of poverty simply by tweaking the tax system, or by raising the minimum wage by a few cents, or by reducing student debt sl….

There is only one thing Donald Trump is interested in, and that's Donald Trump..

It's as if we live in a house which has a vast treasury in one of its rooms. Only we've forgotten about it. So, instead of living a life of royalty, ….

Be bold. You gotta be bold..