Lately, I've become accustomed to the way The ground opens up and envelopes me Each time I go out to walk the dog.

The artist's role is to raise the consciousness of the people. To make them understand life, the world and themselves more completely. That's how I see it. Otherwise, I don't know why you do it.

A man is either free or he is not. There cannot be any apprenticeship for freedom.

There is no justice in America, but it is the fight for justice that sustains you

The torture of being the unseen object, and the constantly observed subject.

My responsibility is to truth and beauty.

In America, black is a country.

I'd say I'm a revolutionary optimist. I believe that the good guys -the people- are going to win.

There is no depth to education without art.

Thought is more important than art....To revere art and have no understanding of the process that forces it into existence, is finally not even to understand what art is.

All thinking people oppose terrorism both domestic & international but one should not be used to cover the other

Any time not spent on love is wasted.

The more you read, the more you want to know, and so the more questions you have.

Take the unpopular route. Use the road no one travels by. Think of doing what is uncommon but remarkable. You have absolutely nobody to overtake you on the empty road!

I condemn the lack of proper investigation of the massacres and the impunity of those responsible for them.

I'm experimental by nature... always exploring my creativity.

We are consciousness whether we are in this reality or whether we are not in this reality; we are eternal consciousness.

The trouble with most Englishwomen is that they will dress as if they had been a mouse in a previous incarnation... they do not want to attract attention.

I thought being an adult meant knowing what you believe, but that has not been my experience.

There is only one trait that makes the writer. He is always watching.

The topic of working moms is a tap-dance recital in a minefield.