I like the idea of someone else’s love safely sealed in a song or a book.

I wonder how Colin Powell sleeps at night. I would like to have a word with him because he lied. He lied. He lied to me. He lied to my face through the camera at the U.N.

My mother taught me how to read very early on and at school I was ahead of everyone in class... Reading was always something that I liked because I could do it alone and I was alone a lot of the time with my mother working the hours she did. Books became my friends very early on.

For me, jazz will always be the soundtrack of the civil rights movement.

I never thought about getting any tattoos removed.

The more you own, the more it owns you.

No matter how rough things can be at times, many Americans are optimistic and on the move.