I didn't want to admit that I was a performer. A performer meant spotlights - a performer had connotations of theater. I would have preferred agent t….

My preference would have been to not go back on the air after 9\11, at all until the time felt right but that wasn't an option..

They [the blacks] had no rights which the white man was bound to respect..

I imitate everyone except myself..

A text is evolutionary by its very nature..

My politics is my religion, my religion is my politics..

Leadership comes by the example you set through your work. It begins from the way you are perceived as a worker and the respect that comes with it..

I'm happy and at peace with where I am at life..

I'd say I am partial to women..

I started to earn money because we didn't have money..

I never starved myself..

You cannot conceive the many without the one..

Funny how life messed with you..

Perhaps it was freedom itself that choked her..

I`m pretty sure there is no such thing as God..

He is truly great in who hath power over himself..

But it's important, while we are supporting lessons in respecting others, to remember that many of our youngest kids need to learn to respect themsel….

And I think that we in America need to understand that many schools need improvement, and particularly with respect to how they're serving minority c….

I have to be pretty close to what I am..

When I approach a child, he inspires in me two sentiments; tenderness for what he is, and respect for what he may become..

Respect commands itself and can neither be given nor withheld when it is due..