In knowing how to overcome little things, a centimeter at a time, gradually when bigger things come, you're prepared.

I used to want the words 'She tried' on my tombstone. Now I want 'She did it.'

I don't think Ed Sullivan had anything to do with Carib Song.

I always believed that if you set out to be successful, then you already were.

When you have faith in something, it’s your reason to be alive and to fight for it.

We weren't pushing Black is beautiful. We just showed it.

You dance because you have to. Dance is an essential part of life that has always been with me.

I wasn't concerned about the hardships because I always felt I was doing what I had to do, what I wanted to do and what I was destined to do.

A creative person has to #‎ create .

I really think that aside from admiring my talent you really admire me as a person and as a woman.

My work has been much more Caribbean and eclectic. I am interested in people, and where they come from happens to have fallen within an area of Africa.

Don't judge people by their religious, cultural, or professional background. Judge if you must, by their behavior with other people.

If somebody asks you where you are going, tell him you are going to everywhere, because future is a path going to everywhere!

And above all things, never think that you're not good enough yourself. A man should never think that. My belief is that in life people will take you at your own reckoning.

it is as unseeing to ask what is the use of poetry as it would be to ask what is the use of religion.

Will an intelligent spectator not admire the prodigeous structures of Stone-Henge because he does not know by what law of mechanics they were raised?

My family had liberal positions.

American Taliban John Walker Lindh has pleaded guilty to two counts of terrorism and will face twenty years in prison. I guess that means his jihad is on ji-hold.

Hollywood never knew there was a Vietnam War until they made the movie.

Are we alone in an uncaring universe, or is God some kind of wiseguy?

Since I've got on the Internet, it's opened a whole world of wasted time for me. My wife says she's an Internet widow.