I am not ashamed of my grandparents for having been slaves. I am only ashamed of myself for having at one time being ashamed.

It takes a deep commitment to change and an even deeper commitment to grow.

Please, a definition: A hibernation is a covert preparation for a more overt action.

Education is all a matter of building bridges.

Life is to be lived, not controlled, and humanity is won by continuing to play in face of certain defeat.

Power doesn't have to show off. Power is confident, self-assuring, self-starting and self-stopping, self-warming and self-justifying. When you have it, you know it.

America is woven of many strands. I would recognise them and let it so remain. Our fate is to become one, and yet many. This is not prophecy, but description.

When I discover who I am, I'll be free.

What and how much had I lost by trying to do only what was expected of me instead of what I myself had wished to do?

God is love, I said, but art's the possibility of forms, and shadows are the source of identity.

There are few things in the world as dangerous as sleepwalkers.

If you want to double your productively, shorten the timeline to by 50%.

That was what it meant to be a woman: to live in an unbearable agony hidden for a time behind smoke and mirrors.

Words can be a fortress or a drawbridge to disaster

The stalkers can get a little scary at times, but I guess all these things are a part of being famous.

The clear and simple words of common usage are always better than those of erudition. The jargon of the philosophers not seldom conceals an absence of thought.

Carter couldn't elect a dog-catcher.

My hair is a battle. It's an uphill, fine, baby-haired battle.

It's none of the governments business who comes to, in, on, or from my body.

As if fixing the little errors would made the big stuff manageable.

In art school, I started to see Pettibon in magazines, and I figured it out backward. I was into the idea that someone could show work in galleries while making album covers and photocopied books.