If power is abstraction, which many black men, black women, and people of color have very little voice in, well, then I want to sit at the table.

I always made stuff but never thought, I'm going to be an artist.

The most important imperative to be questioned is the one that tells you to go the the art supply store to be a painter.

I never have a problem with being black. I have a problem with the easy association of what that means to some people.

Tobacco and religious organisations.

A Scorpio, it's just about peeling back the layers. And I'm always surprised at myself-there's a lot under there.

For me, the '80s were like the drawing by Botticelli of the nine rings of hell.

Everything is more interesting and complex in my mind.

Everyone finds the time to do the things the want to do.

I am always in a state of Eunoia.And I'm not in it just for the vowels.

My mom was a free spirit, and she brought me up to be a free spirit.

WOw, wow... so we are the same!?...Let's stop here as moment taken from your goldy life.

A photographic portrait is a picture of someone who knows he is being photographed, and what he does with this knowledge is as much a part of the photograph as what he's wearing or how he looks.

I always want to do something groundbreaking, something different. I think that's what it's always about. If you have the means to do it, why not?

The game's been good to me and I hope I've been good to the game. I'm 50 years old and I've pretty much did everything that I wanted to do in boxing.

Whether you're a believer or not, I think there's a huge value in understanding the quality of redemption.

I think it took me a while to convince Nashville that what I do is genuine and my heart's in the right place, and I love country music.

What does my soul look like to you?' 'I couldn't reduce it to words if I tried, but its beauty is unsurpassed.

There are ignorant priests and ignorant people, who are all too ready to cry sorcery if a woman is only a little wiser than they are!

Our conscience illuminated by the Holy Spirit as we search the Scriptures will show us in every circumstance the right way.

I speak of knowledge, sir, which is not the bed-equal of learning ... I speak of what comes from learning. I speak of understanding.