“No matter how old we get, life’s always got a lesson for you. Most likely one you’ve learned ten times before.”

[On speaking of family secrets:] I don’t know how you heal a wound and not let it get some air.

For just once in my life, I’d like to get through a whole week without having to deal with some fool, white or black, who’s got an attitude about the way I look.

“Criminal justice” was a term she found more apt than it was meant to be.

I wanted to pay homage to working women because they are the bridge that got us over.’ My work is about the people who are assumed not to have a worldview.

Adding instruments to parts of a song and having them somehow find a pocket. That to me was a huge lesson. Like, there’s more than 808s in the universe.

The lesson this teaches and which every Afro-American should ponder well, is that a Winchester rifle should have a place of honor in every black home, and it should be used for that protection which the law refuses to give.

Degrading oneself would only kill the warrior within, it was time to hold the negativity accountable but in a loving manner.

You can be a gem yet would be considered a rock, it all depends on the mindset.

When you get billions in aid and your weapons resupplied and your ammunition stock resupplied, you don’t learn the lesson that war is bad and nobody wins.

Don’t run from lessons; they are little packages of treasure that have been given to us. As we learn from them, our lives change for the better.

And we are never too old to study the Bible. Each time the lessons are studied comes some new meaning, some new thought which will make us better.

I think that in itself, if you’re a true golfer, you’ll see specific things you need to work on. Much cheaper than private lessons.