I think, if one is a true art lover, he can't stick to a particular genre. Art knows no partitions, no boundaries.

The only thing that powerful men feared above all else was a loss of that power.

A man that studieth revenge keeps his own wounds green.

Middle-income countries are the biggest users of GMOs. Places like Brazil.

Place is extremely important to my work because I am always pulling landscape imagery into my poems.

We used to say in the black community that if somebody else caught a cold, we caught pneumonia.

Fashion you can buy, but style you possess. The key to style is learning who you are, which takes years. There’s no how-to road map to style. It’s about self-expression and, above all, attitude.

Operating in an unlit world, the unconscious mind is a brilliant detective.

What's swinging in words? If a guy makes you pat your foot and if you feel it down your back, you don't have to ask anybody if that's good music or not. You can always feel it.

Justice needs money; it always has . . . whether for abolition of slavery and early women's rights movements or the civil rights and environmental drives of our generation.

The mind, as you age, Is an artist, it seems. Monet paints your mem’ries, Picasso your dreams.