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Losing teaches you something
My acting gives me my self-worth
Loving your enemy is a radical concept.
Live just because or live your life for a cause
I think when I stop fighting, I die in a sense.
Why don't we scale up those things that do work.
Sometimes rejection in life is really redirection.
Don't envy someone else's gift. Discover your own.
What determines your altitude in life is your attitude.
Competition's always been a product of American lifestyle
I grew. Going outside my comfort zone is a big one for me.
Be careful about gossiping because loose lips really do sink ships.
Music is the soundtrack of our lives, it's essential for our lives.
In some states, not even 50 percent of black boys finish high school.
If you don't have courage, you can't practice any of the other virtues.
Poverty and wealth inequality are a form of instability into the future.
I believe if we make black America better, we make all of America better.
We're all cracked vessels, and we're always in process, I think, every one of us.
Leonard Pitts, Jr. is the most insightful and inspiring columnist of his generation.
I wanted to be a theater actress, and initially, I wanted to work in musical theater
We believe that when you make Black America better - you make all of America better.
The choices we make about the lives we live determine the kinds of legacies we leave.
Struggling to stay in the middle class, and I love that. That's me and my dad and my family.
I just find in our world that forgiveness is becoming more and more a difficult thing for us to do.
The storm came. Lives were washed away. Ancient pains resurfaced. Now it is time for a sea of change.
He was a humanist then, he's a humanist now, and to my mind John Carlos is an authentic American hero.
Democrats, too often, take blacks for granted, and Republicans, too often, simply ignore black voters.
We come to know who we really are in life during the dark and difficult and desolate days of our journey.
Regardless of your race, religion or political affiliation, never hesitate to question those in authority.
Troubled times do call for troubled songs, songs that unsettle our souls and our spirits unapologetically.
The City of Angels is a microcosm of the world, and so living in L.A. makes me feel like a citizen of the world.
We need to elect leaders who understand that leadership is about loving and serving people, not about self-advancement.
I fear that we are living in a society, living in a world where forgiving people is becoming more and more difficult to do.
I believe there is nothing we endure in life that you can't recover from. Failure is not fatal. Everyone has the capacity to fail up.
Capitalism is like a child: if you want the child to grow up free and productive, somebody's got to look over the shoulder of that child.
I don't want the Obama era to be more about symbolism than substance when it comes to black people. I love him, but I love black people even more.
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
I think, for most of us is that once you get to a certain place in your career you're not having to elbow and knock people around and audition for parts.
I'm always fascinated by people from the Midwest, because it is so different than Hollywood, who discover at some point that they want to be in Hollywood.
I thought our community should have a deep dialogue to make black America better. I believe if we make black America better, we make all of America better.
When you work for something, you appreciate it more. So what are y'all going to do with all the opportunities you inherited that you didn't have to work for?
This whole notion of a post racial America was nonsense from the very beginning. It was a bad idea, a bad notion, a bad formulation when it was first raised.
To be clear, the gap between the have gots and the have nots is widening. In this most multicultural, multiracial, multiethnic America ever, that concerns me.
It's hard these days to have a conversation, at least it is for me, about [Truman]Capote without "Good Night, and Good Luck" coming up in the same conversation.
For me, like when you've put yourself out there emotionally, physically, and you've really put yourself on the line, for me, that means I've really done something.
John Carlos provided the world with one of the most iconic images of the 1960s with his Black Power salute after a medal-winning performance at the 1968 summer games.
The data is going to indicate sadly that when the Obama administration is over, black people will have lost ground in every single leading economic indicator category.
We - again, the, the, the, the bastardization and the demonization over the last few years of teachers and of unions and of collective bargaining, that is not the answer.
When I'm at the premiere and I see the film in its entirety, I forget plot, I forget the story, I forget what my character goes through, because I really do just let it go.
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.