There is an incredible amount of magic and feistiness in black men that nobody has been able to wipe out. But everybody has tried.

I have only to break into the tightness of a strawberry, and I see summer - its dust and lowering skies.

If you want to fly, you have to give up the things that weigh you down.

The function of freedom is to free someone else.

Don’t beg anybody for anything, especially love.

There is no such thing as race. None. There is just a human race - scientifically, anthropologically. Racism is a construct, a social construct... it has a social function, racism.

There is no time for despair, no place for self-pity, no need for silence, no room for fear. We speak, we write, we do language. That is how civilizations heal.

If there's a book you really want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it.

In times of dread, artists must never choose to remain silent.

All water has a perfect memory and is forever trying to get back to where it was.

Oppressive language does more than represent violence; it is violence; does more than represent the limits of knowledge; it limits knowledge.

Life seemed to him to be a narrow cage, and her iron bars were many and dense, and there was only one way out.

Someone once told me that we move when it becomes less painful than staying where we are".

Love is the universal language of heart.Feeling are the universal language of love.Smile is the universal language of charm.Attraction is the universal language of life.

His whisper was the softest sound I ever knew, which seemed to bring the loudest heartbeat.

As a woman I resent the fact that in golf if I have the highest score I'm the loser.

I think romance is anything honest. As long as it's honest, it's so disarming.

People dressed up like me, at the comic-con in San Antonio. It's very rewarding.

I like the way you can stretch things out and leave a huge amount of space that, on a record, would feel like silence. I enjoy the possibilities.

I have social anxiety. It's easier up on stage because there's security in being there. When I'm off stage I'm trying not to be a manic freak. I'm quite shy.

Felt is not the easiest thing to animate. It's very flimsy.