If It's Magic...

We’re flawed because we want so much more. We’re ruined because we get these things and we wish for what we had.

I didn’t go to religion to make me happy. I always knew a bottle of Port would do that. If you want a religion to make you feel really comfortable, I certainly don’t recommend Christianity.

I learn a great deal by merely observing you, and letting you talk as long as you please, and taking note of what you do not say.

American mainstream is obsessed with black creative genius - be it music, walk, style - but at the same time puts a low priority on the black social misery which is the very context out of which that creativity flows.

Where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, where ignorance prevails, and where any one class is made to feel that society is an organized conspiracy to oppress, rob and degrade them, neither persons nor property will be safe.

My mission in life is not merely to survive, but to thrive; and to do so with some passion, some compassion, some humor, and some style.