The past is certain, the future obscure..

Art comes after the fact, as a witness to certain things that have happened..

Neither fear nor resist change - cultivate it..

One of the things that characterizes good intellectual work is a certain self-importance.

Africa is on the rise..

I don't keep up with the Joneses, I am the Joneses..

Start small and with your own money..

They will love me for that which destroys me..

The image is an image..

God hides things by putting them near us..

I often look for beauty in form and structure, and for ideas..

At certain moments, words are nothing; it is the tone in which they are uttered..

Since I went no grasse hath growne on my hele..

Things [only] exist once they are represented..

You can hold onto anything to make you carry on..

Take what you got and fly with it..

I've never been competitive with anybody but myself..

We get the worrywart, the hypochondriac, the money-grubbing miser, the intractable negotiator... Some would say certain of these refer to the stereot….

When you're the ingénue no one is really interested in you for that..

I am not an African. I am an American..

When you take on a project, you have to be certain that you can make the best version of whatever it is youre given..