Notwithstanding all the wrongs that slavery heaped upon me, I can bless it for one thing-youth's important lesson of self-reliance..
You are who you are when nobody's watching..
Every thing is changing every minute..
My freedom will be so much the greater and more meaningful the more narrowly I limit my field of action and the more I surround myself with obstacles….
Words reproduce themselves pleasurably too..
And so love goes. And so life goes. And so I go..
Everybody got their something..
To become historically-minded is to be grown-up..
Because love, love never finishes..
Embrace each challenge in your life as an opportunity for self-transformation..
Don’t be against things so much as for things..
But you don't have your druthers in life, do you?.
History works itself out in the living..
I think there is something a little too self conscious about enjoying being an outsider..
Don't think. Thinking is the enemy of creativity. It's self-conscious, and anything self-conscious is lousy. You can't try to do things. You simply m….
Doing more of what doesn't work doesn't work..
Money doesn't exist because I don't recognize it..
You spend your life getting walked on, you learn to recognize the tread..
I often look for beauty in form and structure, and for ideas..
We're extremely young and have the potential to be anything that we want to be..
Jeans have become this neutral foundational garment. If you want to show you are relaxed, if you want to be relaxed, you wear jeans..