If you can only be tall because someone else is on their knees, then you have a serious problem. And white people have a very, very serious problem.

Listen, baby, people do funny things. Specially us. The cards are stacked against us and just trying to stay in the game, stay alive and in the game, makes us do funny things. Things we can't help. Things that make us hurt one another. We don't even know why.

We mistook violence for passion, indolence for leisure, and thought recklessness was freedom.

If we had no language we'd have nothing.

Not knowing it was hard; knowing it was harder

Art invites us to know beauty and to solicit it, summon it, from even the most tragic of circumstances.

There are some very powerful contributions to knowledge in the scientific world or the legal world, but art is singular. That's why every dictator gets rid of the artists first. They burn the books and execute the artists first. Then they get on with whatever else they're interested in. Art might do something. It's dangerous.