And we [The Futurist artists] must invent dynamic designs to go with them and express them in equally dynamic shapes: triangles, cones, spirals, ellipses, circles, etc.

We shall find the abstract equivalent for all forms & elements in the universe, then we shall combine them in sculptural constructions according to the mood of our inspiration.

They did not want anything to do with me in Paris and they were right: they have gone much further than I, but I will work and I too will progress.

Do not fixate on the odds against you but on victory ahead of you.

It was a slow understanding that the lack of education in a country like Somalia creates these huge social problems.

Emily Dickinson liked to shock people. She liked to break rules. There was a kind of rebellious freedom in her inner world.

Every country I go to, I learn a little bit more about myself.

When you feel like you've given all you've got! You gotta take one more step!

If we didn't have the rest of the world growing, the United States economy would be in much worse shape than it is today.

You could say I'm a laid-back kind of guy.

You yourself are the teacher, and the pupil, you're the master, you're the guru, you are the leader, you are everything! And, to understand is to transform what is.

In Stamps the segregation was so complete that most Black children didn't really, absolutely know what whites looked like.

But, Sergeant Osbern, Sir, I like my head.