The thing is you can be a great designer but you can also be lazy or not understand the other person's preferences or be more concerned about being a star than being good at what you do.

I was working a corporate job for years and it always felt restrictive, it felt like I was doing something I wasn't supposed to be doing.

I believe that if you work hard enough and do things the right way recognition will come.

I wanted to give people an experience. I wanted them to get their money's worth.

I wasn't able to afford high-end brands or any of that, so I grew up on streetwear.

I want to represent the street, not in a negative sense, but in the sense that when I was growing up, that's what I grew up on.

I want to be recognized but I don't seek it out.

Somebody once told me if you're doing what you're supposed to you don't have to force it.

I started out doing everything on a custom scale and when that started paying the bills I started making more pieces.

Starting out is very difficult if you don't have a clientele.

I'm based in Atlanta so there weren't a lot of people to talk to about fashion because no one was really doing it on the scale that I wanted to do it. I had to do a lot of research on my own.

Its quietness was the quietness of strength. And the eyes were those of one who had walked through many a dark valley without flinching.

I cannot give up chasing after happiness simply because there might be pain down the road.

So one of the things that happened with integration in the South is they found that the black teachers were much more educated than the white teachers.

Criticism at the wrong time, even if it's legitimate criticism, can be seriously damaging and make the writer lose faith in what he's doing. It's the timing that's all-important.

Top-down approaches do not work. The bottleneck is at the top of the bottle.

Don't you get a swollen head. There's always someone who could come and do what you do, maybe even better, so be grateful and work hard.

I mean, there are peripheral things I do, I do photography, I write plays, I have books published, but that's neither here not there.

The need for bold and aggressive federal action to create jobs and restore confidence in our battered economy is clear.

If we could share this world below, If we could learn to love... If we could share this world below, We'd need no world above.

I consider myself a sit-down comedian really, as much as anything else. I love comedy. Life is a cosmic joke.