Thank you, God, because I am lucky. Also let's face it, it turns out I'm black. And I'm having a career quite different from lots of people, so I feel doubly lucky.

In the dark times, if you have something to hold on to, which is yourself, you'll survive.

When you are kind to someone in trouble, you hope they'll remember and be kind to someone else. And it'll become like a wildfire.

We're here for a reason. I believe a bit of the reason is to throw little torches out to lead people through the dark.

Normal is nothing more than a cycle on a washing machine.

Art and life are subjective. Not everybody's gonna dig what I dig, but I reserve the right to dig it.

We're born with success. It is only others who point out our failures, and what they attribute to us as failure.

I always wore sneakers when I wanted to. It was always about being comfortable and being myself.

Children are a quality of life ... when our children are happy, then we are better as human beings.

It you want to be somebody, If you want to go some where, you've got to wake up and pay attention

It never occurs to me that there are things I can't do.

No matter how bad your heart is broken, the world doesn't stop for your grief.

BE the music, DO the math, HAVE the dream!

Vultures pick the meat clean off a bone. Guilt eats at the marrow, leaving a man hollow.

Authority forgets a dying king.

I think all my pictures are ideas, and they're ideas made into images.

Imagination is essential and it comes first, for without imagination we are aimless.

I have survivor's curiosity, I guess.

I am suspicious of guilt in myself and in other people; it is usually a way of not thinking, or of announcing one's own fine sensibilities the better to be rid of them fast.

There is too much animal courage in society and not sufficient moral courage.

Indifference is an excellent substitute for patience.