I am not an African. I am an American.

The blues is not the creation of a crushed-spirited people. It is the product of a forward-looking, upward-striving people.

When the Negro musician or dancer swings the blues, he is fulfilling the same fundamental existential requirement that determines the mission of the poet, the priest and the medicine man.

Don’t swear at your past

A shrink and a patient switching places. Who is REALLY the boss?

The reader need not be told that John Bull never leaves home without encumbering himself with the greatest possible load of luggage. Our companions were no exception to the rule.

Getting inequality out there into the consciousness was important. All these political pundits now talking about the 2014 and 2016 elections are talking about inequality.

Men often prove the violence of their own prejudices, even by the violence with which they attack the prejudices of other people.

Errol Flynn and I are the only ones left who do any good old hell raising.

There's tons of stuff where you're like, "God, I wish I could take that back."

Always live up to your standards — by lowering them, if necessary.

Superior to all the religions is the Love of God and superior to all types of worship is seeing God.

Honesty is the best policy ; a policy is, after all, a strategy for living in the polis in the city.