Solo dancing does not exist: the dancer dances with the floor: add another dancer and you have a quartet: each dance with the other and each with the floor.

The one thing that the racist can never manage is anything like discrimination: he is indiscriminate by definition.

Once I decide to do something I can't have people telling me I can't. If there's a roadblock you jump over it walk around it crawl under it.

'Taking charge of one's life' involves risk, because it means confronting a diversity of open possibilities.

He described how, as a boy of 14, his dad had been down the mining pit, his uncle had been down the pit, his brother had been down the pit, and of course he would go down the pit.

Moment I stop havin fun wit it, I'll be done wit it.

Every time I set up an interview, I say, "That's it, this is my last one. I'll do this because I committed to doing it, but I'm never doing another one."

In short, industrialism is over.

I don't like movies that are morally simple.

When I see birches bend to left and right... I like to think some boy's been swinging them.

I came from nothing out in the woods near Tallahassee, Florida. My mom was a single mom raising five of us. It wasn't easy but she found a way to raise us to adulthood. We made it somehow.