Once you begin to explain or excuse all events on racial grounds, you begin to indulge in the perilous mythology of race.

When I read great literature, great drama, speeches, or sermons, I feel that the human mind has not achieved anything greater than the ability to share feelings and thoughts through language.

Just so you know, there's a space that only you can fill. Just so you know, I loved you then, I guess I always will.

Stuttering is painful. In Sunday school, I'd try to read my lessons, and the children behind me were falling on the floor with laughter.

Love is just love, it can never be explained.

I consider myself a novice film actor.

People who lusted after Marilyn Monroe had no idea she stuttered. It is the secret of her sexiness, actually.