I am inside someone who hates me. I look out from his eyes.

The artist's role is to raise the consciousness of the people. To make them understand life, the world and themselves more completely. That's how I see it. Otherwise, I don't know why you do it.

A man is either free or he is not. There cannot be any apprenticeship for freedom.

There is no justice in America, but it is the fight for justice that sustains you

The torture of being the unseen object, and the constantly observed subject.

My responsibility is to truth and beauty.

In America, black is a country.

I'd say I'm a revolutionary optimist. I believe that the good guys -the people- are going to win.

There is no depth to education without art.

Thought is more important than art....To revere art and have no understanding of the process that forces it into existence, is finally not even to understand what art is.

All thinking people oppose terrorism both domestic & international but one should not be used to cover the other

Prices of semicolons, plot devices, prologues and inciting incidents continued to fall yesterday, lopping twenty points off the TomJones Index.

Spread those strong wings of yours. Fly.

Reward worthy failure - Experimentation.

If vampires ever spend less time playing theatrics and living down to their stereotypes, they might actually take over the world someday

I ran for president to present the citizens of America. I am here to change the broken system so it serves their families and their communities well.

Tonight, the daughter of an immigrant from Italy has been chosen to run for vice president in the new land my father came to love.

I start from something considered dead and arrive at a world. And when I put a title on it, it becomes even more alive.

He is happy in his wisdom who has learned at another's expense.

I'm the foe of moderation, the champion of excess. If I may lift a line from a die-hard whose identity is lost in the shuffle, 'I'd rather be strongly wrong than weakly right.'

I bet if you go through the rest of your life telling yourself, "I'm sparkling," you'll have a whole different energy and experience.