I will preach with my brush.

I believe the Negro blood counts, and counts to my advantage – though it has caused me at times a life of great humiliation and sorrow.

Get it - get it better or get it worse. No middle ground of compromise.

It seemed to me that this might be a great pageant, which would give a chance for a very interesting picture.

I decided on the spot that I would be an artist, and I assure you, it was no ordinary artist I had in mind.

Together, they would watch everything that was so carefully planned collapse, and they would smile at the beauty of destruction.

Every woman wants a cowboy.

Ma had been very fashionable, before she married Pa, and a dressmaker had made her clothes.

Hear no evil, speak no evil, see no evil but then also do no evil.

Great influencers attract others.

I'm big into social studies, the humanities. I really love history and world issues and philosophy and law.

I'm sort of an old man, always tinkering in the backyard. Since I grew up playing outdoors, I still like to plant things, sit out on the deck, or go hiking.

What counts alone is the innovator, the dissenter, the harbinger of things unheard of, the man who rejects the traditional standards and aims at substituting new values and ideas for old ones.

Amateurs talk strategy. Professionals talk logistics.

I think that if you have a strong narrative, if the idea of the song can be boiled down to the basics, it won't change that much.