"It doesn't pay to try, all the smart girls know why."

“Abolish the Loyal League and the Ku Klux Klan; let us come together and stand together.”

“The lamp burns bright when wick and oil are clean.”

“I'm not saying I'm the perfect role model. But I'm honest. Period.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

“I have never been sexually aroused by a man. But I have yet to kiss Johnny Depp, so you never know.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

“We have to go from what is essentially an industrial model of education, a manufacturing model, which is based on linearity and conformity and batching people. We have to move to a model that is based more on principles of agriculture. We have to recognize that human flourishing is not a mechanical process; it's an organic process. And you cannot predict the outcome of human development. All you can do, like a farmer, is create the conditions under which they will begin to flourish.”

“In 1989 at Greater Saint Steven Full Gospel Church, I gave my life to Christ. That's pretty much where it all started for me. I was 23 years old at the time, right after my first year in the NBA. The pastor preached a message about being fully committed. That pretty much was me. I wasn't fully committed. I was kind of in and out all of the time. So I just wanted to make a commitment.”

Source : "A conversation with New Jersey Nets head coach Avery Johnson". Interview with Chad Bonham, www.beliefnet.com. December 2011.

“But we are more than genteel or civilized/ we are an idea in the process of being realized.”

“If wrinkles must be written on our brows, let them not be written upon the heart. The spirit should never grow old.”