The interesting thing about the African-American experience in this country is that we are sort of a mongrel of people. I mean we're all kind of mixed up.
You cannot build a little guy up by tearing a big guy down. Abraham Lincoln said it. . .
We need to give everybody a chance, treat everybody with respect, and let them share in this great American dream that we have.
You give up a lot to be in politics. And if you're not there to change the world I don't know what you're there for. I mean, it doesn't make any sense to me.
Frankly, we are republicans and they're democrats but before all of that, we're Americans. And I believe we need to unify in so many ways to rebuild our country, to strengthen our country, to rebuild our defense, and for America to secure it's place it world; for us, for our children, and for the next generation.
We're all hypocrites. We all say one thing and do another. But why don't we try to do what we say more than what we don't?
I’m concerned about the fact there seems to be a war on the poor - that if you’re poor, somehow you’re shiftless and lazy.
Every time we look at the Blessed Sacrament our place in heaven is raised forever.
I always think of myself not so much as a painter but as a medium for accident and chance.
I take it upon myself to get motivated. I know when I have a bad game. It's something I think about myself when it happens, and I don't need someone to tell me I didn't do this or didn't do that.
[Buckminster Fuller ] never got past his freshman year [in Harvard], because the guy was an insane womanizer and he did parties every night, never studied anything, never took a note, didn't care about anything and just had a blast. So they said, "We gotta let you go. You get zeros all the time. " Today it wouldn't even matter, because they don't care if you can read.