It was a lifetime occupation that kept us too busy to stop and ask if we were happy or not

Struggle is strengthening. Battling with evil gives us the power to battle evil even more.

Any form of art is a form of power; it has impact, it can affect change. It can not only move us, it makes us move.

I find, in being black, a thing of beauty: a joy; a strength; a secret cup of gladness.

There is no secret to a long marriage - it's hard work...It's serious business, and certainly not for cowards.

Any form of art is a form of power.

If we can reach in wih the art and touch the imagination of the child, no matter who, we have affected that child.

One of the things I appreciate more was how important struggle was as the instrument that helped to keep us knit together.

College ain't so much where you been as how you talk when you get back.

Italy and London are the only places where I don't feel to exist on sufferance.

I think once I was in high school - I had boyfriends and stuff like that, but I think when I was younger, I went through a period where I looked like a boy, and people thought I was a boy.

...compelling outdoor imagery always combines some kind of personal connection to nature and skillful technique. The former seems to be a form of grace, and the latter an act of the will.

The Bob Jones policy on interracial dating, I mean I spoke out on interracial dating. I spoke against that. I spoke out against interracial dating. I support the policy of interracial dating.

Open afresh your rounds of starry folds, Ye ardent Marigolds.

There’s a moment of profound sadness that can be dispelled only by summoning my anger.

Yes! in the sea of life enisled, With echoing straits between us thrown, Dotting the shoreless watery wild, We mortal millions live alone.

The only reward one should offer an artist is to buy his work.

Picasso never thought of himself as avant-garde. I just find it a bad way to think of yourself.