I want everybody to understand that I am an American Negro first before I am a member of any political party.

I am sure there’s going to be times when I do things wrong that no one’s going to like and everyone’s going to think I’m terrible and rubbish but I know I’m going to go through those times, and it’s just about understanding that that’s going to happen.

One of the roles of the Presidency is to lead a political party. Having a President in office is usually a huge advantage to a party because it gives the party a mouthpiece and an advocate at the highest level.

When did I know I had talent? I think it started when I first started playing sports, organized sports.

Robyn is who I am. Rihanna – that’s an idea of who I am.

Sometimes I’m a bit under-aggressive and sometimes a bit over. But I think it’s good to have both.

I love the natural world – it comes from my culture, which grew out of a people enslaved.

I’ve always felt like there was a lot of hype around me even when there wasn’t. I felt like everyone was talking about me even when no one was talking about me.

By its birth, and for all time, Christianity is pledged to the Cross and dominated by the sign of the Cross. It cannot remain its own self except by identifying itself ever more intensely with the essence of the Cross.

I don’t like to read things that people write about me. I’d rather read what kids have to say about me because it’s not their profession to do that.

My work is the only ground I’ve ever had to stand on. To put it bluntly, I seem to have a whole superstructure with no foundation, but I’m working on the foundation.

Somehow, we have come to the erroneous belief that we are all but flesh, blood, and bones, and that’s all. So we direct our values to material things.

I’ve had a few semi-toxic relationships, but it’s not what I look for when I’m seeing someone.

I had a lot of resistance, and not just to fame. I was always conscious of not changing.

What a wee little part of a person’s life are his acts and his words! His real life is led in his head, and is known to none but himself.

If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.

There’s only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that’s your own self.

I more fear what is within me than what comes from without.

I’m no leader; I’m a little humble follower.

Once you begin to fall off the track and believe you breathe different air to everyone else, you’re doomed; you’re finished.

He knows my limitations and where I’m a good wife and a good mom.

Many people in this world are still so identified with every thought that arises in their head. There is not the slightest space of awareness there.

Many people would be surprised that, in fact, I’m quite shy.

No person is important enough to make me angry.

Find out who you are. And do it on purpose.

What you have outside you counts less than what you have inside you.

America is not nearly done. We’re only in the beginning. Who knows who we will be? Who knows… what color we will be? It is all something that, maybe, our descendants – if they survive that long – will see.

Who shall measure the hat and violence of the poet’s heart when caught and tangled in a woman’s body?

I don’t think I get that upset over things.

The worst thing one can do is not to try, to be aware of what one wants and not give in to it, to spend years in silent hurt wondering if something could have materialized – never knowing.

I’m addicted to placebos.

The object of opening the mind, as of opening the mouth, is to shut it again on something solid.

So near is falsehood to truth that a wise man would do well not to trust himself on the narrow edge.

Of course, when I say that human nature is gentleness, it is not 100 percent so. Every human being has that nature, but there are many people acting against their nature, being false.

I am not The Rock. I am Dwayne Johnson.

Upon the creatures we have made, we are, ourselves, at last, dependent.

I’m considered wise, and sometimes I see myself as knowing. Most of the time, I see myself as wanting to know. And I see myself as a very interested person. I’ve never been bored in my life.

‚They‘ is… stay away from them, please. There is so many different definitions of ‚they.‘ You might have a personal ‚they.‘ They against you; they want you broken and miserable. They don’t like winners; they don’t like people who’s blessed. So everybody’s got a different ‚they.‘

I claim to be a simple individual liable to err like any other fellow mortal. I own, however, that I have humility enough to confess my errors and to retrace my steps.

You can use your real identity, or you can use phone numbers for something like WhatsApp, and pseudonyms for something like Instagram. But in any of those you’re not just sharing and consuming content, you are also building relationships with people and building an understanding of people.

I live halfway between reality and theater at all times. And I was born this way.

People are more aware now of cities and of different ways of life. I suppose the writing I do is a bit in the past, and I’m not sure it’s the kind of writing I would do if I were starting now.

When you judge another, you do not define them, you define yourself.

I am not an Athenian or a Greek, but a citizen of the world.

The answer is, who you are cannot be defined through thinking or mental labels or definitions, because it’s beyond that. It is the very sense of being, or presence, that is there when you become conscious of the present moment. In essence, you and what we call the present moment are, at the deepest level, one.

The poetry you read has been written for you, each of you – black, white, Hispanic, man, woman, gay, straight.

We have all had the experience of finding that our reactions and perhaps even our deeds have denied beliefs we thought were ours.

At some point, you grow out of being attracted to that flame that burns you over and over and over again.

Well, there are some things that I just can’t get out of my head, and they start to annoy me after a while. Sometimes they’re of my own creation, as well – and they’re just as annoying. It’s not only other people’s ear worms that bug me, it’s my own, as well.

Although I’m only fourteen, I know quite well what I want. I know who is right and who is wrong. I have my opinions, my own ideas and principles, and although it may sound pretty mad from an adolescent, I feel more of a person than a child. I feel quite independent of anyone.

Your Highest Self is not just an idea that sounds lofty and spiritual. It is a way of being. It is the very first principle that you must come to understand and embrace as you move toward attracting to you that which you want and need for this parenthesis in eternity that you know as your life.

I don’t think I ever thought of myself as Superman. But there were people who thought of me that way, and maybe I believed them a little.

Actors know what actors are insecure about – and they’re all insecure.

Latinos are Republican. They just don’t know it yet.

We must be our own before we can be another’s.

There are a lot of groups that feel a little bit strange around me, because I am inclusive.

You’re not going to say anything about me that I’m not going to say about myself. There’s so many things that I think about myself; if someone really wanted to get at me, they could say this and this and this. So I’m going to say it before they can. It’s the best policy for me.

We have a tendency to condemn people who are different from us, to define their sins as paramount and our own sinfulness as being insignificant.

Vanity is great motivation, to be fair.

Nobody can hurt me without my permission.

The weather and my mood have little connection. I have my foggy and my fine days within me; my prosperity or misfortune has little to do with the matter.