To be sensual, I think, is to respect and rejoice in the force of life, of life itself, and to be present in all that one does, from the effort of loving to the making of bread.

Not everything that is faced can be changed. But nothing can be changed until it is faced.

I can't believe what you say, because I see what you do.

Fires can't be made with dead embers, nor can enthusiasm be stirred by spiritless men. Enthusiasm in our daily work lightens effort and turns even labor into pleasant tasks.

Love takes off masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within.

The place in which I'll fit will not exist until I make it.

Trust life, and it will teach you, in joy and sorrow, all you need to know.

If the relationship of father to son could really be reduced to biology, the whole earth would blaze with the glory of fathers and sons.

You have to decide who you are and force the world to deal with you, not with its idea of you.

Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. Love is a battle, love is a war; love is a growing up.

The American idea of racial progress is measured by how fast I become white.

Do you think they're going to buy that a guy in tacky leather chaps dances like this?" I scoffed when he twirled me back into his emb

We contract with them.”“And demons –”“Are one of those group.”“Like, from Hell?”“Sometimes. And sometimes from Park Avenue.

Ever since I could remember anything, flowers have been like dear friends to me, comforters, inspirers, powers to uplift and to cheer.

In the last analysis, it is our conception of death which decides our answers to all the questions that life puts to us.

When we organize with one another, when we get involved, when we stand up and speak out together, we can create a power no government can suppress.

If you are after truth, let your shadow be the only shadow around you! Stay away from the crowds!

I mean, there's plenty of artists who are making R&B music, but because of their ethnicity, it's considered something else.

If we have fear and despair in us, we cannot remove the suffering in society.

I'm a well rounded artist and I love to make music and create and be different. Hopefully I get the opportunity to show the world that.

You can only give away what you have inside. Become an instrument of love.