When I'm not creating or focusing on something I can imagine or invent, I think I go back over my life - I don't recommend this by the way - and you pick up, oh, what'd you do that for? Why didn't you understand this?

Love is never any better than the lover.

Movements toward freedom and the self-respect that comes from something other than what people think is their most important feature.

Black people are victims of an enormous amount of violence. None of those things can take place without the complicity of the people who run the schools and the city.

Isolation, you know, carries the seeds of its own destruction because as times change, other things seep in.

He said, 'Always. Always.

From my point of view, your life is already a miracle of chance waiting for you to shape its destiny.