The art of hearing what somebody has to say is actually, listening.

Scared is what you're feeling. Brave is what you're doing.

Sometimes, people meant it when they smiled. Other times, they smiled because they wanted to mean it.

There are no rest stops on the road of life. Otherwise they'd be congested with traffic.

Your distress about life might mean you have been living for the wrong reason not that you have no reason for living.

I'm an activist. I'm a proud activist. So I want to be someone who is pro-black and pro-Africa and still be somebody that has positive influence.

Being interviewed is one of the most abnormal things that you can do to somebody else. It's two steps removed from the Inquisition.

I know the ways of Pleasure, the sweet strains, The lullings and the relishes of it.

Photography is a magic thing. A thing that has mysterious odors, a little strange and frightening, something one quickly grows to love.

I looked good when I sang the end.

When you get to be my age there are more and more people you have known that you miss. Brion [Gysin], Antony Balch, Ian Summerville are ones I think of right away I was quite close to.