Beauty is a mystery. You can neither eat it nor make flannel out of it.

Let me be candid, my party is full of racists

Let's go to Valhalla with the sun on our faces.

All artists are constantly looking for something and they don't always know what.

This is my genre...the happiness, tragedies, and the sorrows of mankind as realized in the teeming black ghetto.

And it is not necessary to have great things to do. I turn my little omelette in the pan for the love of God.

If you're too open-minded; your brains will fall out.

I would describe my work as expressionist. The expressionist point of view is stressing your own feelings about something.

To worship God in truth is to recognize Him for being who He is, and to recognize ourselves for what we are.

If I don't have anything to do all day, I might not even put my pants on.

We ought not to be weary of doing little things for the love of God, who regards not the greatness of the work, but the love with which it is performed.

Genius is the ability to renew one's emotions in daily experience.

School is something that you learn - reading and writing. Education is what you learn from the family, from the environment, from the community.

I never like to be lied to by a girlfriend or agent, and certainly not the president of the United States.

But I will not tell you how long or short the way will be; only that it lies across a river. But do not fear that, for I am the great Bridge Builder.

With a sister, one can never fear that success will go to one's head.

One ought to be afraid of nothing other then things possessed of power to do us harm, but things innoucuous need not be feared.

I guess I probably see myself as a director. If I had to choose, I think that that's the aspect of the process that I'm most excited by.

I know that so many women don't have a choice. They could lose their job if they say, 'I need to leave because I don't have childcare.'

Oh! You're the people ruining the rivers.

I teach at Eastern University, which is highly committed to doing work among the poor and the oppressed peoples of the world. We have a special commitment to the city.