One should be able to have the man one loves.

It’s happened before. It’s all happened before. History is worth shit.

Have you listened to your heart?

Don’t lose that anger. Just have a little more patience and forgiveness. For yourself as well.

How needy man is.

The only safe place left is the dark.

Almost more than talent you need tenacity, and an infinite capacity for rejection, if you are to succeed.

We’re all different in many ways and alike in many ways and special in some sort of way.

No dark cloud can forever prevent the sun from shining!

I feel like social media is something that has yet to be considered a viable platform for marketing in the industry.

The Civil Rights Movement also reaffirmed me as a singer. It taught me that singing was not entertainment, it was something else.

A lot of people have a dissatisfaction or an anger in them, so as soon as something goes awry, they flip out.

I don’t do ordinary work. That is not me in the least.

The body, in 'La Belle Noiseuse,' was the source of the artist's creativity.

Absolute solitude is on this showing the ineluctable destiny of the soul. Only our bodies can meet.

I'm not trying to get power over white. I'm involved in a freedom struggle. Not a power struggle.

There are those whose sole claim to profundity is the discovery of exceptions to the rules.

Extraordinary accomplishments are only achieved when we are able to overcome extraordinary challenges.