One man can make a difference and every man should try.
First Fruits has impacted my life personally and the lives of countless others!
If it weren’t for my horse, I wouldn’t have spent that year in college.
Back then I was still listening to rhythm and blues, and my aunt took me to see a Pete Seeger concert. And it gelled. He made all the sense in the world to me. I got addicted to his albums, and then Belafonte and Odetta - they were the people who seemed to fuse things that were important to me into music. I think Pete the most because he did what he did to the point where he took those enormous risks and then paid for them.
Without me, rap is just a bunch of orphans.
As long as we remember a person, they're not really gone. Their thoughts, their feelings, their memories, they become a part of us.
I have a fan who suffered with leukemia, and apparently, the only thing that helped him through that was my music, so of course that's the ultimate sense of achievement. It's an incredible feeling.
Ray Charles has always been a big part of my life.
I think the fact that I made enough noise in the world that I might be remembered is an amazing achievement. You can't ask for more than that.
To me, it wasn't 'Star Wars' that shaped me; it was more 'Mary Tyler Moore' and, nowadays, 'Louie' and 'Girls.'
I would like to say I can change millions of lives, but realistically, if my journey inspires 10 people to go to university or to achieve something, then I think I've done my job.
Olga E. Kagan was the strongest woman I knew - and probably the reason I've spent my life with other strong women.
My life has been a whirlwind since the '94 Olympics.
I would never say, "I'm retired." I believe if I decided to just not work, in six months everybody would just forget whether you were working or not.
I can never stop thanking God because my music influences people in their respective lives.
When I was very young, I took no interest in party politics. My line of interest was how can you be part of an influence to the society that you live in.
I met Malcolm the month before he was killed. He deeply changed my mind about America.
It is surprising how many Americans are politically distressed over issues that doesn’t even affect their lives. Gay marriage is an example I don’t understand. It doesn’t affect anyone when someone they do not know gets married.
It's odd to meet a rather elderly man who says, 'I've been reading you all my life.' It makes you feel a slight chill.
One thing that has irritated me in the sport of boxing since I stopped is I'm really surprised that no one has come along to excite me like me.
So many things influence me in one way or another. Some might be surprising, but that's OK.
There are confirmed stories of people who can break instruments and cause them to fail by walking in a room. I'm the opposite - I can walk into a room and something will work better than it is supposed to.
Human faces shouldn't get lost amid the statistics.
I never wanted to go to the Old Vic and not have it survive long after I was gone. It's not about me; it's about that theater. And the more that it's able to grow and do everything it should do without me, then I've done my job.
Our voices carry so much more weight than Joe Schmo from down the street.
