Black power got to moving so fast that we miscalculated the fallout. I certainly have to take some of the responsibility of that; but there was no way we anticipated the response.

We cannot sit around and talk about the beloved community.

We wanted black power to be all things to all people.

Good things happen to those who wait. It's the waiting that takes the longest.

The only crime is pride.

democracy is a see-saw between complete chaos and tolerable confusion

The impulse of modern art was this desire to destroy beauty.

I don't flaunt my money. I like to stay at nice hotels but I'm not a flashy chick. I haven't got much jewellery or anything.

The modern writer who has influenced me most is W. Somerset Maugham .

We have an authorization to use military force against terrorists. We passed it after 9/11.

As in Rome there is, apart from the Romans, a population of statues, so apart from this real world there is a world of illusion, almost more potent, in which most men live.

It was my Fat Elvis period. I was eating and drinking like a pig. I was depressed and I was crying out for help. It's real. And I meant it.

At the end of the day, I stand by who I am. I'm a good person.