Like most ghetto kids I knew it was important to be 'somebody' so I became a good soccer player, because excelling at a sport seemed to make you special.

Realizing our society as it is, without theology dogmatically telling us how we should react to it, and being humane toward that society, that is all that we're sure of.

My mother had a premonition and she felt that hairdressing would be very very good for me.

For nine years I worked to change what was hairdressing then into a geometric art form with color, perm without setting which had never been done before.

Hair is another name for sex.

The essence is, what can we do next? And will it be good?

You never argued with my mother. You couldn't win.