Memory embellishes Life. Forgetfulness makes it possible.

You should always respect what you are and your culture because if your art is going to mean anything, that is where it comes from.

When I conjure these memories, they are of the present to me, because after all, the artist is a kind of enchanter in time.

What I've attempted to do is establish a world through art in which the validity of my Negro experience could live and make its own logic.

The artist has to be something like a whale swimming with his mouth wide open, absorbing everything until he has what he really needs.

Black art has always existed. It just hasn't been looked for in the right places.

Art is the soul of a people.

The artist confronts chaos. The whole thing of art is, how do you organize chaos?

Sometimes the mind relives things very clearly for us...There are roads out of secret places within us along which we all must move as we go to touch others.

Painting is a self-disciplined activity that you have to learn by yourself.

You don't paint what you see, you paint what you feel.

Nothing like a nighttime stroll to give you ideas.

Each generation must discover its own mission or drown into the well of oblivion

The purpose of Hatha Yoga is to establish a body that is less susceptible to outside influences – a stable platform to build on.

Either somebody has equal rights, or they don't. And certainly in the Irish constitution, marriage is genderless. There's no mention of a man and a woman.

Whether we like it or not, life has a lot of drama and pain. But God is writing a great story. Are we going to let Him? Are we going to trust Him?

There are crowds who trample a flower into the dust without thinking once that they have one of the sweetest thoughts of God under their heel.

There is no post-9/11. Everything from now until the end of time is post-9/11.

Every one of us is, even from his mother's womb, a master craftsman of idols.

You can never put too much pork in your mouth as far as I'm concerned.

Now is the only time. How we relate to it creates the future.