One should be religious in everything, have God, whatever God might be, present in everything.

Let me be candid, my party is full of racists

Let's go to Valhalla with the sun on our faces.

All artists are constantly looking for something and they don't always know what.

This is my genre...the happiness, tragedies, and the sorrows of mankind as realized in the teeming black ghetto.

And it is not necessary to have great things to do. I turn my little omelette in the pan for the love of God.

If you're too open-minded; your brains will fall out.

I would describe my work as expressionist. The expressionist point of view is stressing your own feelings about something.

To worship God in truth is to recognize Him for being who He is, and to recognize ourselves for what we are.

If I don't have anything to do all day, I might not even put my pants on.

We ought not to be weary of doing little things for the love of God, who regards not the greatness of the work, but the love with which it is performed.

Circumstances don't determine who you are, or what you will be. Only you do that. You either decide, or you don't. Even the decision not to decide was still yours.

After every unladylike action, there must be an equal and opposite reaction. Consider the necessary, analyze the consequences, clean up the mess.

A painter is a choreographer of space.

In my music, I'm trying to play the truth of what I am.

So is it just human nature to believe that things happen for a reason - to find some shred of meaning even in the worst experiences?

It take a certain type of man to teach, to be far from hood but to understand the streets.

It’s a very interesting thing to try to be your absolute best—not a percent better or a percent worse than that.

It humbles me, but it doesn't humiliate me.

Give your mind a chance to travel through foreign languages.

If you can read this, thank a teacher. If you are reading it in English, thank a soldier.