Already I am no longer looked at with lechery or love.

Do not desire to fit in. Desire to oblige yourselves to lead.

We don't ask a flower any special reason for its existence. We just look at it and are able to accept it as being something different from ourselves.

I believe we should all know each other, we human carriers of so many pleasurable differences. To not know is to doubt, to shrink from, sidestep or destroy.

Reading is important - read between the lines. Don't swallow everything.

We are each other's harvest; we are each other's business; we are each other's magnitude and bond.

Don't let anyone call you a minority if you're black or Hispanic or belong to some other ethnic group. You're not less than anybody else.

I think there are things for all of us to do as long as we're here and we're healthy.

Books are meat and medicine and flame and flight and flower steel, stitch, cloud and clout, and drumbeats on the air.

Truth-tellers are not always palatable. There is a preference for candy bars.

Exhaust the little moment. Soon it dies. And be it gash or gold it will not come again in this identical guise.

He was one of those who are not born handsome, but develop charming features with age by continuously engaging their brains with intelligent thoughts.

Atheism, not religion, is the real force behind the mass murders of history.

Do those things that incline you toward the big questions, and avoid the things that would reduce you and make you trivial.

I don’t think we’re an animal that was built to be happy; we are an animal that was built to reproduce.

Filming takes a lot out of you. It really does. It's immensely demanding, and you have to put the rest of your life in the icebox until you do your final shot.

You never want to be the whitest-sounding black guy in a room.

As a child, reality is whatever one makes of it.

He only is a well-made man who has a good determination. And the end of culture is not to destroy this, God forbid! but to train away all impediment and mixture and leave nothing but pure power.

I'll tell you, there's no goodies and baddies in the world, there's just people with intentions that sometimes clash.

Ka works and the world moves on.