The music is in minors.

Do not desire to fit in. Desire to oblige yourselves to lead.

We don't ask a flower any special reason for its existence. We just look at it and are able to accept it as being something different from ourselves.

I believe we should all know each other, we human carriers of so many pleasurable differences. To not know is to doubt, to shrink from, sidestep or destroy.

Reading is important - read between the lines. Don't swallow everything.

We are each other's harvest; we are each other's business; we are each other's magnitude and bond.

Don't let anyone call you a minority if you're black or Hispanic or belong to some other ethnic group. You're not less than anybody else.

I think there are things for all of us to do as long as we're here and we're healthy.

Books are meat and medicine and flame and flight and flower steel, stitch, cloud and clout, and drumbeats on the air.

Truth-tellers are not always palatable. There is a preference for candy bars.

Exhaust the little moment. Soon it dies. And be it gash or gold it will not come again in this identical guise.

Washing one's hands of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless means to side with the powerful, not to be neutral.

It is not what they say, but the reaction that tells you everything you need to know.

The West is anxious about becoming another Africa, and it has dug deep moats in the hopes of preventing that, but it's too late: it has already become another Africa.

I really love painting women. Their bodies, their clothes - it all interests me, whereas men really don't that much, in a way.

Criticism is valuable... and self-congratulatory experiences are not.

If you never stop when you wave goodbye you just might find, if you give it time, you will wave hello again.

I always want to be the best at whatever I'm attempting to do.

Time which diminishes all things increases understanding for the aging.

Committing yourself is a way of finding out who you are. A man finds his identity by identifying.

Comics is a great medium to get a lot of stories out.