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

Politics is a highly tribal business..

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..

I've been all over the world. I love New York, I love Paris, San Francisco, so many places. But there's no place like New Orleans. It's got the best ….

I don't pull, I just receive..

You can change so many things in your life, but you cannot change where you come from. It's something that you have to deal with: the role everybody ….

There is only one thing Donald Trump is interested in, and that's Donald Trump..

Be bold. You gotta be bold..

For Myrth prolongeth lyfe, and causeth health..

Everyone has a right to rest so as not to injure themselves..

I always return to Paris, taking my selves along - past self, customary self, the self I never had..

My drive is something that I don't fully understand..

I appreciate the people there thinking about me, and I look forward to coming back to Paris for that occasion..

Aspiring writers should read the entire canon of literature that precedes them, back to the Greeks, up to the current issue of The Paris Review..

Nothing is true unless it works. And it has to work for you, not for someone else..

Upward, not Northward.

[When asked at age 79 why her Paris apartment was located up many flights of stairs at the top of the building:] It's the only way I can still make t….

By 40, all women are amazing..

An image is always only showing what's necessary for a thought, not the thought itself..