My mom, my aunt, and my grandma banded together and gave me a village of support when I was growing up.

Growing up, when I'd throw out the trash, I'd toss it and dart because all the cats would come running. That's why I still don't like cats.

Growing up in Stockton wasn't all doom and gloom.

Growing up, I read all three of Frederick Douglass' autobiographies by the time I was 12.

I highly suggest marriage to all my friends who are dating.

Don't let your children take priority over your marriage and your work and everything else.

I was in California when this journalist made a blanket statement about the fact that she did not think that black men and women had the kind of love relationship that Rebecca and Nathan had in Sounder.

If I did not have my wife, I wouldn't be married, I wouldn't have the life that I have and I wouldn't have my wonderful baby boy who's not a baby anymore - he's going to be eight-years-old.