Everyone finds the time to do the things the want to do.

I always made stuff but never thought, I'm going to be an artist.

The most important imperative to be questioned is the one that tells you to go the the art supply store to be a painter.

I never have a problem with being black. I have a problem with the easy association of what that means to some people.

Tobacco and religious organisations.

A Scorpio, it's just about peeling back the layers. And I'm always surprised at myself-there's a lot under there.

If power is abstraction, which many black men, black women, and people of color have very little voice in, well, then I want to sit at the table.

For me, the '80s were like the drawing by Botticelli of the nine rings of hell.

Everything is more interesting and complex in my mind.

I am always in a state of Eunoia.And I'm not in it just for the vowels.

My mom was a free spirit, and she brought me up to be a free spirit.

One life per year. It seemed so moderate a price... until you looked back and realized you could fill a movie theater with your victims.

We have examined a number of ethical issues. We have seen that many accepted practices are open to serious objections. What ought we to do about it? This, too, is an ethical issue.

Unrestricted nationalism is, in the long run, incompatible with world peace.

I am not an originator but a transmitter.

I'm an accumulation of every single thing I've done, good and bad.

But Sneaky Pete was great. I didn't bug him about Gram. Not too much, anyway.

Your grandparents did not endure the indignities of a steerage journey to Ellis Island so that you could stand outside a discothèque and beg a wallpaper designer to take you in with him.

Typically, the performance has a story - a beginning, the crescendo and the end.

There is, nevertheless, a certain respect and a general duty of humanity that ties us, not only to beasts that have life and sense, but even to trees and plants.

But I don't think of the future, or the past, I feast on the moment. This is the secret of happiness, but only reached now in middle age.