He who gets nearer the sun is leader, the aristocrat of aristocrats, or he who, like Dostoevsky, gets nearest the moon of our non-being.

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.

Black and white is heaviest of vibrant and at the same time lightest of achromatic.

Losing your job shows you the worth of your time rather the worth of money

How can you have a war on terrorism while war itself is terrorism!

Worthiness doesn't have prerequisites.

Diplomacy has more to do with (credible) threats than with sweet reason. And threats from America are a lot more credible, nowadays.

I absorbed the lie that any smart woman would use birth control and be responsible for her body. Obviously that's not true.

If we don't want segregation, then we need to get rid of channels like BET, and the BET Awards and the Image Awards, where you're only awarded if you're black.

The second mouse gets the cheese!

In the realm of evil thoughts none induces to sin as much as do thoughts that concern the pleasure of the flesh.

I hate commas in the wrong places.