“I am America. I am the part you won’t recognize. But get used to me. Black, confident, cocky; my name, not yours; my religion, not yours; my goals, my own; get used to me.”

“A leader's job is not to do the work for others, it's to help others figure out how to do ...”

“An eye for an eye will only make the whole world blind.”

“I put my heart & soul into my work, & have lost my mind in the process.”

“When you're at the end of your rope, tie a knot and hold on.”

“The moment you give up is the moment you let someone else win.”

“As long as we persevere and endure, we can get anything we want”

“Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving.”

“You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.”

“To accept one’s past—one’s history—is not the same thing as drowning in it; it is ...”

“The one unchangeable certainty is that nothing is certain or unchangeable”

“The person who risks nothing does nothing, has nothing, is nothing, and becomes nothing”

“Any product that needs a manual to work is broken.”