I Paint Self-Portraits Because I Am So Often Alone, Because I Am The Person I Know Best.

There is no nobility with bad manners.

Why Is It That We Rejoice At A Birth And Grieve At A Funeral? It Is Because We Are Not The Person Involved.

A Place For Everything, Everything In Its Place.

Patriotism Means To Stand By The Country. It Does Not Mean To Stand By The President.

A Good Head And A Good Heart Are Always A Formidable Combination.

For great men, religion is a way of making friends; small people make religion a fighting tool.

In your light I learn how to love. In your beauty, how to make poems. You dance inside my chest where no-one sees you, but sometimes I do, and that sight becomes this art.

He Who Is Fixed To A Star Does Not Change His Mind.

All black Americans have slave names. They have white names; names that the slave master has given to them.