I don’t need a certain number of friends, just a number of friends I can be certain of.

Every time I conjure up a rock, I throw it.

People will say to you, "Oh, you are fearless." That is so not true. We should stop saying that about people. It's a slander, really.

I'm for women choosing whatever they want to do but they have to really know what they are doing.

You know, one race will not be a survivor if the other one dies, and that's something that we should think about.

I come from somewhere and from specific black people in the South, including my parents, who built our first school, and rebuilt it after it was burned to the ground. And they used to bake pies and cakes to raise money to keep it going. So, I learned to struggle from a very early way in a way that was truly indigenous to the South.

Whenever you are creating beauty around you, you are restoring your own soul.