Every new fashion is a form of rebellion.

If you apply reason and logic to this career of mine, you're not going to get very far. You simply won't.

I had learned something of Miami from people who had visited there, so I knew what to expect.

We suffer pain, we hang tight to hope, we nurture expectations, we are plagued occasionally by fears, we are haunted by defeats and unrealized hopes . . . The hoplessness of which I speak is not limited.

Racism is very painful. That's life. It never ends.

We all suffer from the preoccupation that there exists... in the loved one, perfection.

I was born two months early, and everyone had given up on me. But my mother insisted on my life.