I read, I painted, I didn't hate niggers.

Being an intellectual creates a lot of questions and no answers.

In my insides, it really hurts if someone doesn't like me. It's silly.

You are what you settle for. You are only as much as you settle for.

Life is too damn short and [screwed] up to go through it silently loving someone and never telling them how you feel. [Screw] the consequences, [screw] the implications of the actions, to hell with it all... whatever happens as a result is better than the nothingness that is inevitable with silence.

On stage I make love to twenty five thousand people; and then I go home alone.

Don't go looking for Mr. Right. Look for Mr. Right Now.