In the sense that I also try to reflect the fullness of the black experience, I’m very much a jazz poet.

Find your own voice & use it, / use your own voice & find it.

Life seemed to him to be a narrow cage, and her iron bars were many and dense, and there was only one way out.

...reality, however utopian, is something from which people feel the need of taking pretty frequent holidays....

People who fit don’t seek. The seekers are those that don’t fit.

Just for the record, saying 'The surprise hasn't started yet' while pulling something out of your pants is super creepy.

In the last analysis, most of our difficulties come from losing contact with our instincts, with the age-old forgotten wisdom stored up in us.

Humanitarianism consists in never sacrificing a human being to a purpose.

I'm naturally curious, and I've always been driven by my curiosity. Curiosity gets people excited. Curiosity leads to new ideas, new jobs, new industries.

Helen Mirren is like the sexiest woman on the planet to me. She is. Just the way she goes about everything.

My rule is: the second you find yourself doing something you hate, quit doing it.

Any fear is an illusion. You think something is standing in your way, but nothing is really there. What is there is an opportunity to do your best and gain some success.