"What is important, what I consider success, is that we make a contribution to our world."

“There in the mist, enormous, majestic, silent and terrible, stood the Great Wall of China. Solitarily, with the indifference of nature herself, it crept up the mountain side and slipped down to the depth of the valley.”

“In fashion, there's a lack of strong male images. And there's a huge lack of strong African American images. I noticed over the past thirteen years, Ralph and those guys have used guys that looked similar to me. And I was happy for those guys, but eventually I said, 'Enough is enough, I'm just going to go in and take my job back.'”

Source : "Tyson Beckford on Modeling, Zoolander, and Racism in the Fashion Industry". Interview with Jonathan Evans, www.esquire.com. January 17, 2014.

“The game taught me the game.”

Source : Edwin Lefèvre, Jon D. Markman (2010). “Reminiscences of a Stock Operator: With New Commentary and Insights on the Life and Times of Jesse Livermore”, p.36, John Wiley & Sons

“From sage on the stage to guide on the side.”

“I really want to get the word out that I am still relevant and have something to say.”

“I don't want to be known just as 'Carrot Top.' I don't always want to be this crazy, goofy guy.”

“In prayerful silence you must look into your own heart. No one can tell you better than yourself what comes between you and God. Ask yourself. Then listen!”

“In any socialist government, they must destroy all alliances other than your alliance to the government, and they want the government to become your God. That for you to totally depend upon government. So we become slaves to government, through taxation, through regulation, through all kinds of restrictions, that makes us not free anymore.”