Specifically for black women, our images and our bodies in the media and in history have been so hypersexualized.

I feel like this is a feminist issue and is going to be a part of a feminist conversation, and I wanted images of women of color in that conversation - feminism historically has left us out.

Depending on where you live and how you travel - whether you drive or bus or whatever - your experiences may be different. But I think that theme will be the same.

Stop telling women to smile.

I am primarily an oil painter and a studio painter, so originally I was going to do an oil painting.

No one knows the Truth, but those who have the Truth

Enjoy what you are learning and doing. This is one of the hardest concepts in the entire world to understand. Harder yet to put into practice.

Opinions about obviousness are to a certain extent a function of time.

Anyway, the sort of love that will not wait is probably best to pass by

I mentioned charter schools, and experimenting with our school system, to make it work. I think that's something we really have to pay attention to.

The man who cannot live with charity, sharing other men's pain, is punished by feeling his own with intolerable anguish.

I'm content because I'm a busy person.

Intellectual slavery, of whatever nature it may be, will always have as a natural result both political and social slavery.

I never intended to make a living from music. That's the funny thing. I wanted to be a journalist.

Wine, not too much, inspires and make the mind,to the soft joys of Venus strong inclined,which, buried in excess, unapt to love,stupidly lies and knows not hom to move