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

I always made stuff but never thought, I'm going to be an artist.

I never have a problem with being black. I have a problem with the easy association of what that means to some people.

Tobacco and religious organisations.

A Scorpio, it's just about peeling back the layers. And I'm always surprised at myself-there's a lot under there.

If power is abstraction, which many black men, black women, and people of color have very little voice in, well, then I want to sit at the table.

For me, the '80s were like the drawing by Botticelli of the nine rings of hell.

Everything is more interesting and complex in my mind.

Everyone finds the time to do the things the want to do.

I am always in a state of Eunoia.And I'm not in it just for the vowels.

My mom was a free spirit, and she brought me up to be a free spirit.

Every kind word or action has an equal reaction. What you put out comes back to you. Why not make it caring and joyful?

Harmony is produced in ministry when everyone seeks to be a servant.

Life is a sports make it count.

I watch an awful lot of old Hollywood movies - Ill devour anything with Bette Davis or Joan Crawford. My absolute favourite is Sunset Boulevard starring Gloria Swanson.

If I had my life to live over I would have burned the pink candle sculpted like a rose before it melted in storage.

The central opposition between magic and science is the opposition between power and knowledge.

The best condition in life is to be not so rich as to be envied nor so poor as to be damned.

A life without purpose is like a novel without a plot. It wanders all over the place, is hard to follow, and in the end, doesn't get particularly good reviews.

Moses has revealed the existence of God to his nation. Jesus Christ to the Roman world, Muhammad to the old continent.

I'm always in these situations where I forget to separate what is pitched as an idea to the fact that I'm actually going to have to execute it.