I do not weep at the world I am too busy sharpening my oyster knife.

If you are silent about your pain, they’ll kill you and say you enjoyed it.

Sometimes, I feel discriminated against, but it does not make me angry. It merely astonishes me. How can any deny themselves the pleasure of my company? It's beyond me.

I have the nerve to walk my own way, however hard, in my search for reality, rather than climb upon the rattling wagon of wishful illusions.

Love makes your soul crawl out from its hiding place.

All my skinfolk ain't kinfolk.

There are years that ask questions and years that answer.

Research is formalized curiosity. It is poking and prying with a purpose.

I love myself when I am laughing. . . and then again when I am looking mean and impressive.

Bitterness is the coward's revenge on the world for having been hurt.

If you haven't got it, you can't show it. If you have got it, you can't hide it.

It always turns out this way: at first people idolize you, swear to be your faithful friend forever and then spit in your tea and in your soul, too.

Life teach you everything either you want to learn it or not ....

I have felt that odd whirr of wings in the head.

As scarce as truth is the supply has always been in excess of the demand.

We need self-confidence in our ability to build Africa. I trust in Mali and I trust in music.

No one is born just once. If you're lucky, you'll emerge again in someone's arms; or unlucky, wake when the long tail of terror brushes the inside of your skull.

Whereas the law is passionless, passion must ever sway the heart of man.

One of the truest tests of spiritual maturity is seeing the miraculous in the monotonous.

One of the fundamental choices you face in every encounter is the choice to approach or avoid.

In America, there seems to be more focus on the idea that it's important to do things differently. In Britain, it's not an issue.