“I like the blues a lot. I grew up on it.”

You have the right to vote. You have the right to share your voice. you have the opportunity to shape the future of your community.

Is listening important? I can’t think of a single walk of life where it wouldn’t be.

Once you’ve made a decision, let providence be your guide.

Anyone who spends a significant amount of time with me finds me disagreeable.

Passing on blessings to someone else is a privilege and honor.

Finding joy is probably tantamount to finding yourself and being comfortable in your own skin.

Get busy livin’ or get busy dyin’.

I don’t want a Black History Month. Black history is American history.

How do we change the world? One random act of kindness at a time.

Let’s honor all of these heroes by being of service to others, as they did.

Together we are strong.

Your best posture is your next posture.

As you grow in this business, you learn how to do more with less.

I was lucky in that when the opportunity came, I was prepared to meet it.

Forgiveness liberates the soul, it removes fear.

I am God. So it’s easy to play him. They say God is in all things. So if God is in me, then I am in God. Therefore, I am God. God does not exist without me.

My mom grew up in the Soviet Bloc, and she was a Tiger Mom. We didn’t get away with much.

My mom wanted to make sure I was prepared to grow up with Black skin in America.

What do we have to do to make God love us?’ I always grew up with that. I always used to go around thinking that. ‘God loved the white people better. He must’ve. That’s why he made them white.’

I feel like I grew up too fast a long time ago.

I grew up in a flat with my brothers and my cousins. My brothers were in the same bed.

A lot has changed since I grew up, but there’s still a long way to go. I don’t think we can move forward with Donald Trump as the president. There’s a disconnect there. We don’t want to regress, we want progress.

You will find as the children grow up that as a rule children are a bitter disappointment – their greatest object being to do precisely what their parents do not wish and have anxiously tried to prevent.

I’m a bit sad because I’m leaving my cherished team in a city where I grew up and where I played for nine years in Santos. But I’m even happier to be facing a new challenge and for making a dream come true.