Art cannot, perhaps, impose order on life—but it teaches us to admire even the unruliest of revelations.

People who are given whatever they want soon develop a sense of entitlement and rapidly lose their sense of proportion.

If history starts as a guest list, it has a tendency to end like the memory of a drunken party: misheard, blurred, fragmentary.

Music - not just the lyrics, but the music itself - expresses confused or illicit passions: rage, lust, envy, frustration, channeling these energies and creating an outlet for them.

Facts might be false if they challenge the conviction of a mind already made up.

History is prone to mistakes in identity, and facts are not always solid things.

There is nothing that 'Sesame Street' can't teach you, if you let it.

Racism is an effect of slavery, not the other way around. Once slavery was abolished, not only did racism not disappear, neither did the economic system it upheld.

Every week I read about myself in a magazine, about something that I haven't done or some place that I've never been or don't even know. It's just gossip, rumors, egos, and politics.

Reggae music is not an easy music to like when it comes to the power in society. 'Cause it talks about changing society. You won't find it readily accepted.

Watergate is not the sort of issue that changes the vote. I don't know anyone who has changed their vote because of it.

Time destroyed Is suicide, where more than blood is spilt.

Toleration is the greatest gift of the mind.

Say, oh well, the Republicans don't like this therefor I shouldn't do it. What kind of a government would that be. We're not a parliamentary system.

I was changing my outfits, my looks, my wig, sometimes several times a day. That's when I know my soul is restless.

Like an actor who transforms into the character that they're playing, you can transform into yourself.

All men will be sailors then Until the sea shall free them

If a man breaks a pledge, the public ought to know it.