Silence is as full of potential wisdom and wit as the unhewn marble of great sculpture.

Experience is not what happens to you; it's what you do with what happens to you.

People will come to love their oppression, to adore the technologies that undo their capacities to think.

The deepest sin against the human mind is to believe things without evidence.

There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that's your own self.

Medical science has made such tremendous progress that there is hardly a healthy human left.

Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.

Most ignorance is vincible ignorance. We don't know because we don't want to know.

Dictators can always consolidate their tyranny by an appeal to patriotism.

Never have so many been manipulated so much by so few.

The more powerful and original a mind, the more it will incline towards the religion of solitude.

Consistency in action is easy once you convert your daily disciplines and activities into habits.

I haven't done rap... I can't do that too well.

I'll be drunk again to feel a little love.

I stopped painting because I was so shocked at what I was doing and how much I wasn't in the work. The work was alien to me. I didn't know how to paint in a way that would get me out of this funk.

He who hesitates is poor.

Perhaps the only institution more puffed-up and self-important than academia is government.

I came down the long road, even before I got here. Just to be where I am today is already a positive in my life. But to have something like this happen to me as well, I'm speechless.

I've always met more discrimination being a woman than being Black...men are men.

Never try to fix other people. God does not need to do a bank shot off your lips.

Rumour doth double, like the voice and echo, The numbers of the feared.