"We've been so preoccupied with getting the government to behave in a fair and democratic way, we were not able to focus on the private sector where most of the jobs are, where most of the wealth and opportunities are."

"Our dreams must be stronger than our memories. We must be pulled by our dreams, rater than pushed by our memories."

"I am not a perfect servant. I am a public servant doing my best against the odds. As I develop and serve, be patient. God is not finished with me yet."

"In many ways, history is marked as 'before' and 'after' Rosa Parks. She sat down in order that we all might stand up, and the walls of segregation came down."

"I'd read a lot of thrillers about politicians and presidents, but never one where you flip the stereotypes and make good people bad and bad people good."

"I think by now I have made it fairly clear that I am not very happy with the word hope. I don't believe in people just hoping."

"The piano is a universal instrument. If you start there, learn your theory and how to read, you can go on to any other instrument."

"My dad's got a brilliant eye for scripts 'cos he's a literary agent. He and my agent read a load of scripts and filter them."