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Who is the perfect woman? She is not in some distant future or in the heads of all that have always thought they know best what is best for you and who you should be. The perfect woman is YOU, just the way you are. You, with all your mood swings, all your doubts and fears and all the challenges you are being faced with. It is YOU, if only you allow yourself to reclaim your BIRTHRIGHT. Your SPACE. It is YOU, when you take a hold of your own SCEPTER and become the RULER of your own personal DESTINY. Step out of the false ideas that you've taken upon as your own. ALLOW yourself to dive into the true resonance with your body and soul, learn to listen to what it has to say. Learn to lovingly but firmly hold your ground and walk the path that is yours and yours alone. YOU are the one you've been waiting for!

When, according to habit, I was contemplating the stars in a clear sky, I noticed a new and unusual star, surpassing the other stars in brilliancy. There had never before been any star in that place in the sky.

No difference, good or bad. Thoughts like birds in mind. Some fly in. Some fly out. Some stay at water hole to drink. Beware of birds that linger.

Most Americans recognize that whatever the government program is, no matter how essential it is, it's waste.

I'm a very observational type of comedian that points out everyday absurdities.

We cannot hold a torch to light another's path without brightening our own.

God, the Great Giver, can open the whole universe to our gaze in the narrow space of a single lane.

To think is wondrous, but to constantly repeat such, is dangerous.

I just like hanging out with my friends, honestly. I mean, as long as I'm in good company and with cool people, and we're just hanging out and having a good time, that's usually what I like to do.

I grew up Southern Baptist. In the Bible Belt.

I find happiness in the tiniest things.

The great thing about being the son of Maya Angelou is that I had the good fortune to grow up around some of the greatest black artists, dancers, singers, musicians, and actors of our time.

I don't want to just add another DVD to the pile. So I think, 'Is this going to have an impact and some lasting value? Is it worth it for me to spend two years of my middle-aged life on this?' They're my criteria, and I think that's led me to more urgent projects.

In 2011, at least a third of middle school and high school students who smoked cigars used flavored little cigars. Six states - Florida, Georgia, Maryland, Massachusetts, Rhode Island and Wisconsin - already have youth cigar smoking rates that are the same or higher than youth cigarette smoking.

Given my family background, whenever, as a child, I was asked about becoming an actor, I used to answer in the negative.

That is what you meant to me: a light that shone through the darkness.” (Your smile, p. 56)

Modeling isn't really a tough job. Acting is much harder: so much prep and changing your look and mannerisms. It's a more difficult lifestyle being a model. I traveled all the time. Although, now I wonder, because I travel all the time for acting, too. So they both have their difficulties.

I was always a closet lover of acting. My mom was very practical. She never, ever restricted our dreams, always told us we could do or be anything. Then I said, 'Maybe I want to be an actor'. And she said, 'Maybe not that'.

I write in a very melodic way, so that will never leave. I think my records will always tend to be approachable.

People who disagree on important issues don't agree on the facts.