E. A. Davis Quotes

I don't care what people think or say about me, I know who I am.

I think if two people love each other, they should be able to get married. That's pretty much simple.

I don't know the true meaning of happiness.

There is so much history of this racist violence that simply to bring one person to justice is not going to disturb the whole racist edifice.

I just look at women sometimes and I just want to ask them, "Do you know how fabulous you are?"

Any form of art is a form of power.

Though I love the luxury of the Waldorf Towers, room service there doesn't do soul food.

If you want a thing done well, get a couple of old broads to do it.

In high school I was best in music class on the trumpet, but the prizes went to the boys with blue eyes. I made up my mind to outdo anybody white on my horn.

I stop short of being a workaholic.

The fact is, beneath the hype, Iraqis will soon appreciate American help and idealism far more than French perfidy. It is never wrong to be on the side of freedom - never.

If you are patient...and wait long enough...Nothing will happen

I've been on Prozac for 12 years and I'm off it now. I know what it feels like to be excited and sad again. I haven't felt like this in 12 years; I'm like a giddy little kid.

Invisible, repetitive, exhausting, unproductive, uncreative - these are the adjectives which most perfectly capture the nature of housework.

All through the night, like the tumult of a river when it races between the cliffs of a canyon, in my sleep I could hear the steady roar of the passing army.

The secret of good writing is to say an old thing in a new way or to say a new thing in an old way.

Life Lesson 3: You can't rush grief. It has its own timetable. All you can do is make sure there are lots of soft places around - beds, pillows, arms, laps.

The only reason to write a new song is because you're tired of the old ones.

Look, man, all I am is a trumpet player.

If you don't know what to play, play nothing.

Reform is born of need, not pity. No vital movement of the people has worked down, for good or evil; fermented, instead, carried up the heaving, cloggy mass.

I'm having a good time. I'm going to treat every game and every day as if they are my last because I now know that they could be.

I wear a lot of boyish stuff, but I prefer to throw a fur coat on top just for the hell of it.

If we can reach in wih the art and touch the imagination of the child, no matter who, we have affected that child.

God doesn't tell us to care for the less fortunate, He demands it.

The best time I ever had with Joan Crawford was when I pushed her down the stairs in Whatever Happened to Baby Jane?

American labor may now look to the future with confidence.

In improvisation, there are no mistakes.

The music industry can make you feel like a prostitute.

It is the relationship between the physical environment and the environed organism, between physiography and ontography (to coin a term), that constitutes the essential principles of geography today.

I hadn't been in Vegas 20 minutes when I got word that the bookmakers were offering three to one that Frank wouldn't show for my wedding.

Everybody has a heart. Except some people.

You can tell whether a person plays well or not by the way he carries the instrument, whether it means something to him or not.

With the possible exception of God during the writing of the Bible, every writer in history has needed an editor. So do you.

If it was just me and Elvis one on one, which only happened once or twice in the times that I did see him, it was a really comfortable. He was a cool guy... easy laugh, nice guy.

Sometimes you see how humanity can rise above any kind of cultural ills and hate that a person's capacity to love and communicate and forgive can be bigger than anything else.

The world's all full of thoughts about wars and space, and tragedies to the world. That's what writers are thinking about because that's what the world is thinking about.

Risk discomfort and solitude for understanding.

The world worries about disability more than disabled people do.

We movie stars all end up by ourselves. Who knows? Maybe we want to.

I think in black communities today we need to encourage a lot more cross racial organizing.

I don't care if a dude is purple with green breath as long as he can swing.

Yes, burn your bridges.

If the Confederacy fails, there should be written on its tombstone: Died of a Theory.

The only way you can become a legend is in your coffin

One of the things I appreciate more was how important struggle was as the instrument that helped to keep us knit together.

I didn't forget your breakfast. I didn't bring your breakfast. Because you didn't eat your din-din.

Hollywood always wanted me to be pretty, but I fought for realism.

When the band plays fast, you play slow; when the band plays slow, you play fast.

Christopher Reeve understood that everything begins with hope. His vision of walking again, his belief that he would be able to in his lifetime, towered over his broken body.