White rhythm is waltzes, marches, and the polka. In Africa, rhythm is used for a celebratory groove, but white rhythm doesn't have such an enormous vocabulary of spirits. It's basically militant.

We're captive on the carousel of time, we can't return we can only look behind.

Keep a good heart. That's the most important thing in life. It's not how much money you make or what you can acquire. The art of it is to keep a good heart.

When the world becomes a massive mess with nobody at the helm, it's time for artists to make their mark.

Chase away the demons, and they will take the angels with them.

We are stardust, we are golden and we've got to get ourselves back to the garden.

Freedom to me is a luxury of being able to follow the path of the heart, to keep the magic in your life. Freedom is necessary for me in order to create, and if I cannot create I don’t feel alive.

Depression can be the sand that makes the pearl. Most of my best work came out of it.

Moons and Junes and Ferris wheels The dizzy dancing way you feel As every fairy tale comes real I've looked at love that way.

Ira Gershwin, shame on him. I mean, some of the writing.

All my battles were with male egos. I’m just looking for equality, not to dominate. But I want to be able to control my vision.

When I was young, I thought I was a bird at one time. Then they told me I can't fly, so I stopped flying.

There are days when my imagination in my enemy. It likes to keep me company in my darkest of times and romanticizes a past that was more of a horror story than a fairytale.

The map? I will first make it.

What mattered was stil there. That was what they all felt, and what surprised them all. What mattered couldnt be shaken.

my cat is always looking at me like i am forgetting something crucial and he depends on it

... a science must deal with a subject and its properties.

Climate change: I say the debate is over. We know the science, we see the threat and we know that the time for action is now

Thus the right of nullification meant by Mr. Jefferson is the natural right, which all admit to be a remedy against insupportable oppression.

One thing I am determined on is that by the time I die my brain shall weigh as much as a man's if study and learning can make it so.

Private companies can make a personal profile, direct you to things - they will say - that you would be interested in, but that's their choice not your choice.