She herself had never been able to be altogether herself: it had been denied her.

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.

Wisdom is essential for successbut failure is the source of wisdom.

Church, in the New Testament sense of the word, is not a meeting we attend, but a group of which we are a part, and a group we serve within.

I always like walking in the rain, so no one can see me crying.

Ah! Justice of our God! Who else could stow Such travails new and pains as met my glance!

The first thing a kindness deserves is acceptance, the second, transmission.

Mistakes are a part of life; you can't avoid them. All you can hope is that they won't be too expensive and that you don't make the same mistake twice.

I grew up in a house with dogs. We always had dogs. We always had a bunch of dogs, actually.

The most important imperative to be questioned is the one that tells you to go the the art supply store to be a painter.

It's important to do things that scare you to death!

People who live in the past generally are afraid to compete in the present. I've got my faults, but living in the past is not one of them. There's no future in it.