When time and space and change converge, we find place. We arrive in Place when we resolve things. Place is peace of mind and understanding. Place is knowledge of self. Place is resolution.

I don't think of myself as a jazz musician but a medicine man.

People say that slaves were taken from Africa. This is not true: People were taken from Africa, among them healers and priests, and were made into slaves.

Music is only a means to an end - it is not the end. The concern is with the condition of man

The biggest problem in South Africa is that we have a disrupted timeline. Historically, politically, spiritually, economically, in people's minds, in people's heads.

Bea stared at the pencils as if they were enemies.

If you haven't turned rebel by twenty you've got no heart if you haven't turned establishment by thirty you've got no brains!

The technology [semiconductors] which has transformed practical existence is largely an application of what was discovered by these allegedly irresponsible [natural] philosophers.

The poster art over the years, art with social critique in it, has always been trying to make that point - that we are larger than they are.

Reason shapes the future, but superstition infects the present.

Historically, the responsibility for voting on the debt limit has gone to the party in the majority.

When you do not accept the insult some one casts on you, it goes back to the person who indulged in it first; a registered letter that is not accepted returns to the sender.

It's no accident that Tony Hopkins is a wonderful film actor.

How soon are we broken on the soft pillow of ease! Adam in paradise was overcome, when Job on the dunghill was a conqueror.

The politician's promises of yesterday are the taxes of today.