God hides things by putting them near us..

I often look for beauty in form and structure, and for ideas..

Since I went no grasse hath growne on my hele..

Knowing what I do, there would be no future peace for me if I kept silent..

And everything would be different, different..

When I was 18 I already had a business going..

Things [only] exist once they are represented..

I think about death every day - what it would be like, why it would happen to me. It would be humiliating to be afraid..

You can hold onto anything to make you carry on..

Take what you got and fly with it..

I've never been competitive with anybody but myself..

If you died it would be like my bones had been removed. No one would know why, but I would collapse..

The unlettered man who prayed to his maker would be heard; the pedant reciting a faultless invocation would be ignored..

When you're the ingénue no one is really interested in you for that..

If we replaced guns with guitars, then the world would be a concert.

[Harriet Tubman] lived such a full, complex, and irrefutably-dynamic life that all the craft in the world would be insufficient in honoring her legac….

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

Learning would be exceedingly laborious, not to mention hazardous, if people had to rely solely on the effects of their own actions to inform them wh….

I had just come to accept that my life would be ordinary when extraordinary things began to happen..

Ideas are all around me. If I wasn't interested in them myself, I don't think anyone else would be either..

Politics is a highly tribal business..