I'm pleased it turned out the way that it did, because I know lots of other people who did fantastic work and did not see this particular kind of recognition [like Emmy].

People are starting to understand the other side's perspective and that's where empathy can sort of begin - once you quit judging other people but just understand where they're coming from.

I try not to get too high off the highs or too low off the lows.

We've seen many Black men lose their life over the past couple of years. Not only just heard about it.

Dialect or the speech of the people is capable of expressing whatever the people are.

Just as important I believe, is Black America can look back at the show and say, "Wow, I think I now understand why a lot of white people were appalled at the acquittal of O.J. Simpson."

Empathy begins with understanding life from another person's perspective. Nobody has an objective experience of reality. It's all through our own individual prisms.

The first time I went on a serious run was when I was 21 years old at Stanford University. From 21 to 30, I continued the tradition and ran 10 miles every year on my birthday.

Feeling lurks in that interval of time between desire and its consummation.

The life-tree of practice is single-minded application.

I'm simply reminding you that you're worth more than what you'll find at the bottom of a bottle.

Experience is the cane of the blind.

You know, a better man for a better America. That's sort of our slogan.

The high-heeled shoe is a marvellously contradictory item; it brings a woman to a man's height but makes sure she cannot keep up with him.

Everything can become a meditation if you live it totally and intensely. And then your life becomes whole.

I never really know what I'm going to write next until it comes to me. So we'll just have to see what happens.

I am like the lover of Roland Barthes "who's always running in his head". I'm always searching, and "eating" everything from my life, in order to put it in my dresses!

Communism is fascism with a human face.