Being a star has made it possible for me to get insulted in places where the average Negro could never hope to go and get insulted.

There is nothing that fear and hope does not permit men to do.

I just sort of take it from a character perspective, and I don't know if he was necessarily spiritual, but I do think he had hope. He was a character that was comfortable having hope in his life, and hope is faith.

Creativity comes from trust. Trust your instincts. And never hope more than you work.

There is something uniquely depressing about the fact that the National Portrait Gallery's version of the Barack Obama 'Hope' poster previously belonged to a pair of lobbyists. Depressing because Mr. Obama's Washington was not supposed to be the lobbyists' Washington, the place we learned to despise during the last administration.