I wrote those poems for myself, as a way of being a soldier here in this country. I didn't know the poems would travel. I didn't go to Lebanon until two years ago, but people told me that many Arabs had memorized these poems and translated them into Arabic.

I felt somehow for many years that George Washington and Alexander Hamilton just left me out by mistake. But through the process of amendment, interpretation, and court decision, I have finally been included in "We, the people."

In a bad marriage, friends are the invisible glue. If we have enough friends, we may go on for years, intending to leave, talking about leaving - instead of actually getting up and leaving.

Yes, I know and then in the same time period within those nine years I lost 150 pounds.

I think for a couple of years I was believing that I was doing it all on my own and I wasn't.

When I was about five or seven years old my mother was placed in a mental institution and so we were with our father who worked very hard, and we had to figure a lot of things out.

I went with Lionel Hampton for three years. Out of that came a trip to Europe.

We stole a box of honey jars one time and went out in the woods and took care of the whole box. I don't think I touched honey again for 20 years. I never wanted to see honey again.

We spent most of our life almost like street rats just running around the street until we were ten years old.

You give the guy an Image Award three years in a row and then turn on him like that? If that's the role they want to fulfill, they need to send a clearer message.

The coolest thing I've gotten to do in the past few years is guest star on Sesame Street.

I was only 24 then, but 18 of those 24 years had been dedicated to wanting to get to that moment.

The ultimate would be to compete in a couple more Olympics, hopefully break some world records and wind up my sports career with a couple of years in the WNBA.

I think the people who have really followed my career from the time I was seven years old can see my steady progress and see the type of person and athlete I am.

I just hope that some of the movies I'm in are still welcome years from now.