A Scorpio, it's just about peeling back the layers. And I'm always surprised at myself-there's a lot under there.

I always made stuff but never thought, I'm going to be an artist.

The most important imperative to be questioned is the one that tells you to go the the art supply store to be a painter.

I never have a problem with being black. I have a problem with the easy association of what that means to some people.

Tobacco and religious organisations.

If power is abstraction, which many black men, black women, and people of color have very little voice in, well, then I want to sit at the table.

For me, the '80s were like the drawing by Botticelli of the nine rings of hell.

Everything is more interesting and complex in my mind.

Everyone finds the time to do the things the want to do.

I am always in a state of Eunoia.And I'm not in it just for the vowels.

My mom was a free spirit, and she brought me up to be a free spirit.

Do you know where your breakthrough begins? Your breakthrough begins where your excuses ends.

In a place of purity, if one does not follow the conduct of that place, there will be tremendous (karma) bondage. He will bind a life in hell!

I try to get closer to reality, to get close to the contradictions. The cinema world can be a real world rather than a dream world.

Peril-ridden and fragile, the imperfect human body, what a shameful thing it was!

I used to be another little fellow with some hoop dreams / Now I got the game laced up, shoe strings.

A case of can't do with, can't do without, that's why I married him again.

Those who speak always and those who never speak are equally unfit for friendship. A food proportion of the talent of listening and speaking is the base of social virtues.

The grandchildren should not bear the debts of the grandparents.

Marketing is the act of inventing the product. The effort of designing it. The craft of producing it. The art of pricing it. The technique of selling it.

Sarah, there's a government inside the government, and I don't control it.