You cannot live your life in ifs and maybes...you cannot live it in week commencings. You live it right here. You live it now.

Discipline is the result of an action, while refinement is a preparation of your calling.

Be quick, but don't hurry.

I come from an interracial family: My father is from Nigeria, and so he is African-American, and my mother is American and white, so I rarely see skin color. It's never an issue for me.

The fun of reading as "an exchange between consciousnesses, a way for human beings to talk to each other about stuff we can't normally talk about."

I think, as an artist, you have to have experienced some deep turmoil, some kind of pain, because that's what connects you with the world. That's what makes it juicy!

Nobody needs an Artist, but everyone needs ART.

Like the majority of deaf people, I don't like blind people much.

Enlightenment is eliminating mental confusion, eliminating hatred, jealousy, mental toxins, cravings. That's very simple and straightforward. Whether you can do it or not is another matter.

honesty is hard work.

Things go wrong all the time; you can't be precious about it.