I love myself when I am laughing. . . and then again when I am looking mean and impressive.

If you are silent about your pain, they’ll kill you and say you enjoyed it.

Sometimes, I feel discriminated against, but it does not make me angry. It merely astonishes me. How can any deny themselves the pleasure of my company? It's beyond me.

I have the nerve to walk my own way, however hard, in my search for reality, rather than climb upon the rattling wagon of wishful illusions.

Love makes your soul crawl out from its hiding place.

All my skinfolk ain't kinfolk.

There are years that ask questions and years that answer.

Research is formalized curiosity. It is poking and prying with a purpose.

Bitterness is the coward's revenge on the world for having been hurt.

If you haven't got it, you can't show it. If you have got it, you can't hide it.

If writers were too wise, perhaps no books would get written at all. It might be better to ask yourself 'Why?”'afterwards than before There is no agony like bearing an untold story inside you.

Without leaps of the imagination, or dreaming, we lose the excitement of possibilities. Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning

It’s time to begin to believe that with God on our side we can build a prosperous nation and continent.

Staying out of the penalty box will really help.

I don't think we should be putting first-time drug offenders in jail for five years. It's a waste of resources.

Yesterday is another world. I want to go back there.

I am both proud and honored to be on the Board of Directors for the Texas Ballet Theater.

I used to watch every episode of 'Justice League,' I went to all the movies, I had the Superman lunchbox. I was enamored with animation in general and always wanted to somehow be a part of it.

I thought if Oasis could get away with sounding like The Beatles, I could get away with sounding like Abba.

Bodily pain affects man as a whole down to the deepest layers of his moral being.

Commercial rock 'n' roll music is a brutalization of the stream of contemporary Negro church music an obscene looting of a cultural expression.