Education isn't something you can finish.

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

I like things to reverberate, to be suggestive..

I'm not just another bimbo..

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

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

The sanctuary would be the epicenter for the foundation. We'll have think tanks there. It's going to be a really, really amazing place. As an educati….

Opening things up not closing them off is my job. I'm doing that for my reader. You know, Bob Gottlieb always says, "Criticism is a service industry.….

Sometimes, when you grow up in one of these poverty-stricken neighborhoods where the educational system isn't the best, you don't realize that you ha….

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

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

Accidental stacks considered harmful..

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

To listen closely and reply well is the highest perfection we are able to attain in the art of conversation..

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..