For us to go to Italy and to penetrate into Italy is like a most fascinating act of self-discovery

Let me be candid, my party is full of racists

Let's go to Valhalla with the sun on our faces.

All artists are constantly looking for something and they don't always know what.

This is my genre...the happiness, tragedies, and the sorrows of mankind as realized in the teeming black ghetto.

And it is not necessary to have great things to do. I turn my little omelette in the pan for the love of God.

If you're too open-minded; your brains will fall out.

I would describe my work as expressionist. The expressionist point of view is stressing your own feelings about something.

To worship God in truth is to recognize Him for being who He is, and to recognize ourselves for what we are.

If I don't have anything to do all day, I might not even put my pants on.

We ought not to be weary of doing little things for the love of God, who regards not the greatness of the work, but the love with which it is performed.

Choice, I've always believed, is all that separates us from animals.

The maker of the stars would rather die for you than live without you. And that is a fact. So if you need to brag, brag about that.

Youll never see a good performance out of me, in terms of a character, when the camera isnt rolling.

A black...gets a job with a white-owned company. He is the only black at the firm. He works hard, but he's fighting a losing battle against his genes.

I pulled a hamstring during the New York City Marathon. An hour into the race, I jumped off the couch.

Contemplating the task ahead would not make it easier or the water warmer.

If you don't feel apologetic for slavery, if you don't feel apologetic for colonialism, if you feel proud of it then say that.

When one eye is fixed upon your destination, there is only one eye left with which to find the Way.

I'm sorry you don't get it, Mom. Sometimes I don't get why I do the things I do. I just know I wake up every morning and wish I was dead.

My own views on abortion, I'm not on either pole of that and neither of the interest groups on either end of this issue would probably be comfortable with my views.