I don't worry about being in a hurry anymore, because my faith in God will always deliver me on time.

Disco music in the '70s was just a call to go wild and party and dance with no thought or conscience or regard for tomorrow.

Going on with life, it only gets more and more intense as time goes by - and the challenges only multiply.

I was stranded in Disco. I went to dozens of darkened places with enough flashing lights to drive the average person mad. I felt lost in the pulse of sheer panic.

You can't very well live in a castle while your kin is on the poor side of town and barely have enough food. Some want you to get to the top and rely on you making it for them, too.

The morning after my high-school graduation found me up early job hunting. The dream of college I put on the back burner.

Good and bad - this is the story of my life.

If you stick around long enough, people start referring to you as a survivor. Suddenly I found myself on the receiving end of several prestigious awards.

I worshipped Berry Gordy for the creative dreams he had made come true.

The world I was born into was one filled with music.

Detroit is full of talent.

There's a huge swath of humanity that has developed verbal abilities to extract resources from guilt-ridden people.They used to be priests, and now they're leftists.

I am of the opinion", Tharkay said, "that you ought not assign to free will something more likely the consequence of a sharp blow to the skull.

There's an exception to every rule, Nora. And you've never failed at being the exception before.

If you cannot change your circumstances, then change your attitude.

The intersection of religion and world politics has often been a bloody crossroads.

A successful work will draw out the features capable of exciting a sense of beauty and interest in the spectator.

I would rather have these things weigh on my mind. At the end of this tunnel of guilt and shame, there must be a light of some kind.

True Love can be no deeper than your capacity for friendship, no higher than your ideals, and no broader than the scope of your vision.

Reason without learning is like the untilled soil, or like the human body that lacks nourishment.

What happened to your hair, tiger? (Fang) It fell off. (Wren)