Remember that when you say ‘I will have none of this exile and this stranger for his face is not like my face and his speech is strange, ’ you have denied America with that word.

There is a wilderness we walk aloneHowever well-companioned

True Love is when you are able to see yourself in another, when you recognize that there is no separation between you and any other Being in the Universe.

Passion is the fire that can burn through fear.

The gateway to the underworld is seen as part antiquity and part theatre. Welcome to the lower depths.

Ronald Reagan: a triumph of the embalmer's art.

My generation of writers has been prone to premature illness and death, especially the women. When Black male writers meet it's like a session of the American Diabetic Association.

We continued to build the business, even in the worst of times. We do business all over America.

Everywhere I go, every smile I see, I know you are there smilin' back at me. Dancin' in moonlight, I know you are free 'cause I can see your star shinin' down on me.

Your life must now run the course that's been set for it.

I'm attracted to working with comedians because they don't have that stars' idea of what a hero should be. The downside is they're always addressing the camera too much.

Peace will be victorious.