I got my first exposure to Islam when I was 13.
You don't ever earn a right to stop doing anything if you feel there is an obligation to move in terms of public service.
There will be those who will tell you that you can't make it because of how you look, because of the way you talk. We all have heard that - I almost listened.
My experience politically has always been that one-word definition of politics: money. Keep your eye on the buck. And that tells you where the American people are going to be.
Slavery is nothing to joke about! And the history of this nation's [the USA's] involvement with slavery is nothing to pass off in a joke.
Government or politics in America today is big business. Everybody makes money involving themselves in one way or the other, whether it's pollsters, whether they are policy wonks, whether they are pundits, whether they are those who believe that they must call it as they see it and then to be fair about it.
What is blackness? Is it the way you talk? Do you got to say, 'Dey this, dey dat. ' Or the way you dress? Or is it the forgiving of certain things? What is black enough?
I have always followed my instincts when it comes to music and life in general. They were telling me very loudly that it was time for John D. , Hallmark and I to get back together.
In just one year, the expenditure of of the U. S. 's military budget is equivalent to the entire 50-year running budget of NASA combined.
Hey birthers, wanna hear my theory? My theory was that Obama was born in America and you were born with the umbilical cord around your neck.
Belief…is the insistence that the truth is what one would ‘lief’ or (will or) wish to be…Faith is an unreserved opening of the mind to the truth, whatever it may turn out to be. Faith has no preconceptions; it is a plunge into the unknown. Belief clings, but faith let’s go…faith is the essential virtue of science, and likewise of any religion that is not self-deceptio