When I'm writing, those ideas are seldom inspired by music itself. I won't often listen to an artist and come up with an idea.

The hands find a way to do what the heart wants to say

If you lack technique you lose the freedom to create.

I didn't study music. I literally lived it.

With the guitar I've suffered a great deal, but when I've had a good time, the suffering seemed worthwhile.

I believe that people have to be sensitized more about the many jobs an individual can branch out to after studying an art form.

You may be surprised to know that growing up, I wanted to be a writer of children's books.

What I love about African-African music is how unselfconscious it is in so many ways.

In general, even if I'm dealing with a historical subject, I begin with invention rather than investigation, because I need to understand what is going to be the voice or the tone of the story.

I have noticed that these days, people don't want to take their time to succeed.

As a visual arts teacher, I have to keep my mind open. I have explores styles from pointillism to cubism.

Appreciate what you have to get more of what you want.

Together forever, never apart. Sometimes in distance, but never in heart.

I understood finding the place you are born in an unbearable prison and wanting something completely different from what you are familiar with, knowing it represents a haven.

The knife is more dangerous than the hand and the knife can be in either hand.

The Internet kept the joke going. Abevigoda.com was devoted to updating the actor's status, as was @AbeVigodaUpdate, a Twitter account.

When you go to an art gallery you are simply a tourist looking at the trophy cabinet of a few millionaires.

The fact is that it was bourgeois white feminism that I was reacting against when I stood in my first women's studies classes and said, "Black women have always worked."

There will always be ladies who lunch. Always. And apparently they live a long time.

I'm waiting for the floor to drop out from under me.

Thank you for loving me enough to let me go.