Instead, pursue the things you love doing, and then do them so well that people can’t take their eyes off you. - Maya Angelou

The race of man is suffering And I can hear the moan, ‘Cause nobody, But nobody Can make it out here alone.

Leaving behind nights of terror and fear I rise Into a daybreak that's wondrously clear I rise Bringing the gifts that my ancestors gave, I am the dream and the hope of the slave. I rise I rise I rise.

I speak to the Black experience, but I am always talking about the human condition — about what we can endure, dream, fail at and survive.