We intend to keep the peace - we will also keep our freedom..
I am a Negro: Black as the night is black, Black like the depths of my Africa..
I play a whole lot of instruments pretty badly, instead of playing one instrument really well..
Power wears out those who don't have it.
My mind was clear and penetrating at the time, for it was midnight, the hour at which I am most brave and most free..
Thought is borne of failure..
There's a lotta things about me you don't know anything about, Dottie. Things you wouldn't understand. Things you couldn't understand. Things you sho….
I watched a lot of movies. I was deeply influenced by movies..
We pretend we have it all. We pretend we can have it all..
I utilize myself a lot more fully now. You get older so you have a lot more experience..
Perhaps... you love too fiercely..
You get older and you see yourself and say, 'God, he's old, who's that?'.
I only invoked what you already knew..
My success wasn't based on how I could push down everybody that was around me. My success was based on how much I could push everybody up..
I perceived that I wouldn't have to go out and search for what I was supposed to do- it would unfold before me..
This is, if not a lifetime process, it's awfully close to it. The writer broadens, becomes deeper, becomes more observant, becomes more tempered, bec….
Certainly when you do a work for a public space, you lose control..
And TV is not the easiest place to be dangerous or on the edge. Especially on a Saturday night..
I have no knowledge of myself as I am, but merely as I appear to myself..
He is coming, and I am here..
I like that you let yourself be surprised.