“Ive been blessed to be in a position to share (my experiences).”

Sometimes we look for those thunderous things to happen in our life for our lives to change or go in the other direction. We seek the miracle. We seek the parting of the seas, the moving of the mountains. But no, its a quiet thing. At least for me it was.

The stage sharpened my creative instrument and encouraged me to go deeper and try new things.

If we plant the right seeds, tomorrow will be better. If you put out good things, then you’ll get good things back. That’s part of our responsibility as entertainers.

I didn’t know who Langston Hughes was till he met me backstage.

You’ve got to make haste while it’s still light of day. My godmother used to say, I don’t want to rust out, I just want to work out. If you stand still long enough, people will throw dirt on you.

Nine years after I had my own accident, I find that in trying to go back to doing those things that I used to do just doesn’t fit. Everything seems to just fall apart. I don’t know why but I think it is because I am this new creature.

Our creator says, ‘Here’s your birth and here’s your death’ – and the rest are the things you learn on your journey. This was my experience – and the choice is, I can lay in the misery, or choose to learn from it and move on.

The death of my daughter is a subject I talk about briefly because there is nothing more tragic.

So be encouraged and dedicate yourself to your dream and if your dream should come my way one day then we will dance upon the boards of life.

When people come and see my show, I try to infuse into them that they can walk away feeling like their lives are a victory.

I used to dance, but now I only move.

You’ve got to make haste while it’s still light of day.

I love sharing my story. It’s endlessly healing.

I want to show people what the possibilities are if you take care of yourself and do the right thing.

The theater was my first training ground. It taught me discipline, dedication and appreciation of hard work.

I coach young people. I have a group called BTP – Broadway Theatre Project.

A contented mind is the greatest blessing a man can enjoy in this world.

I have been blessed by God. And if I’m blessed, there is one reason and one reason only, and that is to help others.

I feel blessed to have had the accumulation of life experiences that I’ve had, life experience just adds to the depths of a persons richness, as with acting!

When I get back into the city, it doesn’t matter where you plop me down, I have my friends around me and I feel so blessed.

The church persecuted is the church pure, and the church pure is the church powerful.

I believe that Americans by and large have been cursed with blessings, and perhaps before long we’ll be blessed with cursings.

We prefer one room in Rangoon to six in Boston.

We feel that we are highly blessed.