Death and life were just adjacent verandas.

All the Creator's children are blessed with gifts. We are all given special skills to assist each other her, including animals, plants and insects.

People who honestly mean to be true really contradict themselves much more rarely than those who try to be 'consistent'.

I think our biggest problem is lack of real, honest communication between black men and black women. A lot of men talk amongst men, and a lot of women speak amongst women.

There are very few pop people I'm interested in working with.

The business world worships mediocrity. Officially we revere free enterprise, initiative and individuality. Unofficially we fear it.

And so, while perhaps not all God's chilluns got wings, enough have for each of us to hope that we may be among those that have.

The heavenly motions... are nothing but a continuous song for several voices, perceived not by the ear but by the intellect, a figured music which sets landmarks in the immeasurable flow of time.

It needeth us to have knowing of the littleness of creatures and to hold as nought all-thing that is made, for to love and have God that is unmade.

Rethink every aspect of bureaucracy.

The artist uses the talent he has, wishing he had more talent. The talent uses the artist it has, wishing it had more artist.