When people campaign for positions, they promise people all kinds of things.

I've got to where I am in life not because of something I brought to the world but through something I found - the wealth of African culture.

My biggest obsession is to show Africans and the world who the people of Africa really are.

I am a forward-looking person and live in the moment to build for the future.

I think it is incumbent on all human beings to oppose injustice in every form.

I lived for music since I could think.

The Afro-American experience is the only real culture that America has. Basically, every American tries to walk, talk, dress and behave like African Americans.

It's obvious that the rest of the world loves high African culture - African culture, period.

I don't think any musician ever thinks about making a statement. I think everybody goes into music loving it.

All my experiences removed geography from my world.

I grew up with protests, marches, demonstrations, struggle. But I come from a clan of community workers.

The vision teller tells the vision to unguarded minds' of prey. The programmed.

I joke around a lot about the manic times because they're funny. We manics do outrageous things and it is part of our colorful nature.

Baseball is the only thing beside the paper clip that hasn't changed

I'm not into weapons. I'm not into cars. I'm not into explosions. I'm scared of all of that.

I don't have to go around trying to save everybody anymore; that's not my job.

Most arts require long study and application, but the most useful art of all, that of pleasing, requires only the desire.

I always say I have a Danish passport, but I am a New Yorker at heart.

Lipstick can glam up a whole look, especially in red.

Novels, like human beings, usually have their beginnings in the dark.

Usually when someone believes in a particular religion, his attitude becomes more and more a sharp angle pointing away from himself. In our way the point of the angle is always toward ourselves.