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..

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

If you're that obsessed with someone, why would you kill her? Humans are full of contradictions..

We are all a mess of contradictions; some of our traits work for us, some against us..

When I was 18 I already had a business going..

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..

Autocratic governments are masters of self-contradiction. They say one thing, do another..

What I love about writing is the contradictions we all embody as human beings..

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

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

Politics is a highly tribal business..

My good friend, the poet Kofi Natambu, once said, "Contradiction is how we operate.".

No one survives life..

Charge for something and make more than you spend..

If you push too much for somebody that everyone knows is your friend, and that you've worked with before, it can backfire..

Strength is for service, not status.