I never felt I belonged. I was always an outsider.

Basically there is no difference between whites and blacks, browns and yellows. I decided to think no more of people as Northerners and Southerners.

Whenever I played Columbus, Ohio, I dropped in to see my close friend, a medium who had mysterious powers. Her Indian guide was Mohawk.

We are all gifted. That is our inheritance.

We never had a bathtub. Mom would bathe me in the wooden or tin washtub in the kitchen, or in a big lard can.

I am somebody cause God don't make no junk

Many people know how to criticize, but few know how to praise.

Only those who are being burned know what fire is like.

Today or any day that phone may ring and bring good news.

There was one emotional outlet my people always had when they had the blues. That was singing.

All the men in my life have been two things: an epic and an epidemic.

I want your scent to intoxicate my passions to the point where lust is merely a word, dancing upon our flames of desire...

Every day I try to be in communication with the universe in an unconscious way.

People come together with their families to celebrate Easter. What better way to celebrate than to spend a few hours going on the journey of Christ's life.

Restore human legs as a means of travel. Pedestrians rely on food for fuel and need no special parking facilities.

Americans often have trouble enjoying the present moment.

You show me a boy who brings a snake home to his mother and I'll show you an orphan.

He who believes he can and he who believes he cannot are both correct.

Some folks can look so busy doing nothing that they seem indispensable.

I kind of end up getting caught up in whatever the rhythm of the movie is and how open the director is to changing things in the moment or finding it in rehearsal.

You might have been able to fool people the first time, or something, but you really can't make a successful sequel today unless people really, really liked the predecessor.