Poe tried alcohol, and any drug he could lay his hands on. He also tried any human being he could lay his hands on.

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.

Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young.

Courage is winning small battles with great honor.

There's no success story. Everybody's got a ghetto story. You always want to make it bigger than what it is.

Today, the United States is No. 1 in corporate profits, No. 1 in CEO salaries, No. 1 in childhood poverty and No. 1 in income and wealth inequality in the industrialized world.

The negro has maintained his racial purity by his well known habit of avoiding baths

I don't even like parties.

Real wisdom is not the knowledge of everything, but the knowledge of which things in life are necessary, which are less necessary, and which are completely unnecessary to know.

There are massive efforts on the part of the internet's corporate owners to try to direct it to become a technique of marginalisation and control.

There is a real world, beyond the glass, for children who look, for those whose parents encourage them to truly see.

Live, it's just the free flow and the energy and the excitement. It's a one-off and you have that adrenaline for an hour and a half.