I think that in the sexual act, as delightful as it can be, the very physical part of it is, yes, a hammering away. So it has a certain brutality.

True strength is delicate.

I think most artists create out of despair. The very nature of creation is not a performing glory on the outside, it's a painful, difficult search within.

When you put things together, things that other people have thrown out, you’re really bringing them to life – a spiritual life that surpasses the life for which they were originally created.

No matter how individual we humans are, we are a composite of everything we are aware of. We are a mirror of our times.

I always wanted to show the world that art is everywhere, except it has to pass through a creative mind.

Most of us have to be transplanted before we blossom.

You take a painting, you have a white, virginal piece of canvas that is the world of purity, and then you put your imagery on it, and you try to bring it back to the original purity.

It gave me great pleasure to think that I could take wood, make it good, and make people like Rockefeller buy it with paper money.

I make collages. I join the shattered world creating a new harmony.

I think all great innovations are built on rejections.

Money amplifies what type of person you are in the world.

It is not the voice that commands the story it is the ear.

I like the idea of readers feeling a familiarity, whether its with Africa or childhood.

If I were a bad black comic I would name my special, Yo mama, and other stories of a lack of self awareness.

Because for whatever reason, even though I want to stay home all the time and be left alone, I want to tell the world who I am now.

That which is worth while is seldom easy.

I believe very much that the most damning thing you can say about Muslims is that you're afraid to say anything because they'll hurt you.

No sickness worse than imagining thyself to be perfect can afflict thy soul.

Every sensible man, every honorable man, must hold the Christian sect in horror.

My own military background is wholly un-distinguished. I was a sergeant.