I am not pushy. You want it, you buy it. Most people hit the customer over the head. But if you're too self-important, it's kind of repellent.

I have a good sense of humor. I think everything we do should have whimsy in it.

If I make a new bag I love, I don't keep it.

I always had a good dexterity. The story in my family goes that at the age of 3 I could thread needles faster than anybody.

I don't want to ever think that I don't know what to do. I want to deal with my own things, to perform my own roles, to be like, "I did this."

[in the true mad north] of introspection, where 'falcons of the inner eye' dive and die, glimpsing in their dying fall, all life's memory of existence.

Common sense (which, in truth, is very uncommon) is the best sense I know of: abide by it; it will counsel you best.

The learner should be actively involved in the learning process.

The politics of the Cape Town Metro, which allows an executive Mayoral committee to make secret decisions which affect you, behind closed doors, is wrong!

Writing about an idea frees me of it. Thinking about it is a circle of repetitions.

Replacing physical priorities with spiritual priorities can change everything.

The more privilege you have, the more opportunity you have. The more opportunity you have, the more responsibility you have.

Bob Dylan truly is a poet whose song is part of the poetry.

If you look at my career over the past twenty years, I've always been trying to look around corners for low-income communities of color.