You've got to eat while you dream. You've got to deliver on short-range commitments, while you develop a long-range strategy and vision and implement it. The success of doing both. Walking and chewing gum if you will. Getting it done in the short-range, and delivering a long-range plan, and executing on that.

There's no right or wrong, success or failure.

I always say be humble but be firm. Humility and openness are the key to success without compromising your beliefs.

I think people often confuse success with fame and stardom.

Well, certainly one of the ironies of the success of affirmative action is that the middle class within the black community no longer lives within 'black community' by and large.