His action was inexcusable, but it was forgivable.

I don't know whether I much enjoyed education. I was not academically gifted.

I do, however, think it would be difficult to write books I don't like to read.

Man is so made that if he is told often enough that he is a fool he believes it.

A lot of people don't want to feel anti-black by being opposed to Obama.

Nothing is less efficient than perfectionism.

Old people have fewer diseases than the young, but their diseases never leave them.

Architects see the world a certain way, and cooks see and smell the world a certain way. [Dancing ] is always been my lens, what I use to see.

Every one is degraded, whether aware of it or not, when other people, without consulting him, take upon themselves unlimited power to regulate his destiny.

Don't Let Me Be Misunderstood," a song that was written for Simone, she confronted the band's lead singer, Eric Burdon. "So you're the honky," she said, "who stole my song and got a hit out of it?

Well, I don’t know if I can comment on Kant or Hegel because I’m no real philosopher in the sense of knowing what these people have said in any detail so let me not comment on that too much.