“A powerful person is equally cool with their flaws and things that aren't powerful about them at all.”

“That point of life when I learned I could cook, that always made me understand what cooks felt like feeding other people. It's okay to receive, but it's really cool to give, so food is to me sexy b...”

“I really had a problem with being 'the man.' I'm past it now, but that was my insecurity. I ran from that. I was cool with being No. 3 on the call sheet or No. 2.”

“I grew up in a two-parent household. We all played sports, all sports, which cost a lot of money. My pops was an attorney; he went to College of the Holy Cross with Clarence Thomas. My mom worked a...”

“I'm a black Catholic raised in Decatur, Georgia, which was very gang-infested. Then, I went to an all-white private high school and excelled in sports and wrote poetry, then played football at the ...”

“Some of the most amazing people I've met in life are cops.”

“Feminity for me was discovering you when I took you for a ride on my Bajaj discover!”

“It's all part of my spirituality,as the wind softly kisses my face, and the world travels beneath me.”

“It's the ride of life the journey from here to there living and loving every moment like we have none to spare.”

“I can accept failure, everyone fails at something. But I can't accept not trying.”

“I was trying to be this person who is cool, eternally rocking.”

“That's what we want to do here at Johnson Space Center. I think what we have always brought to NASA and brought to the country is trying to push the boundaries, trying to go to the next level.”

“Life itself is simple...it's just not easy.”

“Making peace is often a simple thing, but simple isnt the same thing as easy.”

“Everybody was sorry. Sorry was easy. Sorry was for suckers.”