The mere passage of time makes us all exiles.
If we can stay open and embrace our insecurities, our vulnerability, only then will we find the person with whom we are meant to travel through this life.
We are meant to go through this life with a partner, someone who picks us up when we're down.
Try to keep ourselves open, no matter how closed the world tries to make us sometimes.
Love is everything. Without it, I have no use for this world.
I started writing songs so late and I had so many day jobs - jobs just to pay the bills. So, when I started doing this, I said, "I'm never gonna do anything to corrupt this. Never try to "sell it. " Never gonna do anything to make this a job. " I can go five months without writing a song. Then something will happen and I'll write six songs in a week.
We have to try to keep ourselves open, no matter how closed the world tries to make us sometimes. We are meant to go through this life with a partner, someone who picks us up when we're down. This life can be incredibly difficult, especially if we're alone. And if we can stay open and embrace our insecurities, our vulnerability, only then will we find the person with whom we are meant to travel through this life.
I feel that my advances in the business world will shatter a lot of white myths about black athletes-and give some pride and hope to a lot of young blacks.
We parked in back and walked down the stairs with their polished brass railings, past the old-fashioned kitchen. We could see the chefs cooking. It smelled like stew, or meat loaf, the way time should smell, solid and nourishing.
There and then, sitting beside her and within the strength of my adoration, I felt invincible.
When I was young, my ambition was to be one of the people who made a difference in this world. My hope is to leave the world a little better for having been there.