I think that's the core of black aesthetics: the ability to improvise. That is what has enabled our [black people's] survival.

Confront the dark parts of yourself, and work to banish them with illumination and forgiveness. Your willingness to wrestle with your demons will cause your angels to sing.

Have a belief in yourself that is bigger than anyone's disbelief.

All you need in the world is love and laughter. That's all anybody needs. To have love in one hand and laughter in the other.

All of art is a search for ways of being, of living life more fully.

Your demons will cause your angels to sing. Use the pain as fuel.

You get to the point where your demons, which are terrifying, get smaller and smaller and you get bigger and bigger.

The simpler you say it, the more eloquent it is.

Freedom is heavy. You got to put your shoulder to freedom. Put your shoulder to it and hope your back holds up.

Use the pain as fuel, as a reminder of your strength.

You got to be right with yourself before you can be right with anybody else.

We chart delusions through collective agreement.

It destroys one's nerves to be amiable every day to the same human being.

Don't be afraid to hit the ball.

49 and holding. Holding tight! Fighting that heinous age every step of the way.

Fear arises sooner than anything else.

Unlike the ambiguity of life, the ambiguity of language does reach a limit.

The secret of this sport is, while you're the nail, hang in there, let them hit you, until the day you become the hammer, then you smash them back!

Thievery is what unregulated capitalism is all about.

You know, I don't only play for the record books.

I am not going to come back and play IPL. Have a few plans and may play a few matches here and there.