I have no acting technique I act instinctively. That's why I can't play any role that isn't based on something in my life.

Basically there is no difference between whites and blacks, browns and yellows. I decided to think no more of people as Northerners and Southerners.

Whenever I played Columbus, Ohio, I dropped in to see my close friend, a medium who had mysterious powers. Her Indian guide was Mohawk.

We are all gifted. That is our inheritance.

We never had a bathtub. Mom would bathe me in the wooden or tin washtub in the kitchen, or in a big lard can.

I am somebody cause God don't make no junk

Many people know how to criticize, but few know how to praise.

Only those who are being burned know what fire is like.

Today or any day that phone may ring and bring good news.

There was one emotional outlet my people always had when they had the blues. That was singing.

All the men in my life have been two things: an epic and an epidemic.

Learning to focus on the big picture will help you keep things in a proper perspective.

Our anxiety does not come from thinking about the future, but from wanting to control it.

Being honest may not get you a lot of friends it’ll get you the right ones

Every serious novel is, beyond its immediate thematic preoccupations, a discussion of the craft, a conquest of the form, a conflict with its difficulties and a pursuit of its felicities and beauty.

A crust in comfort is better than a feast in fear.

Politics really is a team sport. You really have to work the whole system to get somewhere down the road.

When you sympathize with a married woman you either make two enemies or gain one wife and one friend.

In my opinion, better far it be To destroy vanity within my life Than to destroy my life in vanity.

The Moon Will Illuminate My Room And Soon Im Consumed By My Doom

My philosophy is TRUTH unto me. Through expressing my individuality I become free.