Education isn't something you can finish.

Just being from New York, that's something that you do - knowing how to dress..

Let me claim that Africa and I kept company for a while and then parted ways as if we were both party to relations with a failed outcome. Or say I wa….

I like things to reverberate, to be suggestive..

I'm not just another bimbo..

Oh, we want a new breed of men before India can be cleansed of her disease..

Anyone who wants to pretend that your Huntington's disease is an invention is someone who does not have your best interests at heart..

The whites are the same everywhere. I see them every day..

There are no rules. Let the picture lead you where it must go..

I've aged, but grown up? No..

I ain't from Africa. I'm from St. Louis..

Accidental stacks considered harmful..

Stop war? Impossible! There is no cure for the world's disease..

It's never over till it's over with a friend..

Stand-up is something I just truly love to do, so I'll always go back to it. I'll never stop doing it, that's for sure..

The day you stop learning is the day you begin decaying..

For we put the thought of all that we love into all that we make..

The days passed, as they do, and life went on..

Protecting yourself from failure is probably not a good way to live..

If you can't understand the blues, you don't know much.

You have to really have a taste for being alone to be a writer..