All I'm being offered now are parts that are authority figures. I've done that. And that's not what I want. I want something different.

I'm afraid that I'm either going to have to write myself something or direct something if I'm going to get somewhere.

I like doing business in a black city.

Letting him goThere is a particular kind of suffering to be experienced when you love something greater than yourself. A tender sacrifice. Like the pained silence felt in the lost song of a mermaid

The white folks like for us to be religious, then they can do what they want to with us.

It is not what we do it is how much love we put in the doing.

You could put me on any track. I support that one million percent. Whatever the track is, I'm going to smash it. Believe that.

I've had to overcome a lot of diversity.

When I die I'm going to dance first in all the galaxies...I'm gonna play and dance and sing.

You must never be afraid to go there.

A major of colored troops is here with his party capturing negroes, with or without their consent....They are being conscripted.

Life is beauty, admire it.

An art critic is someone who hopes to see his ideas translated to canvas without having to learn how to paint.