Funk never dies. It is eternal. It just smells a little different from time to time.
Commerce is greedy. Ideology is blood-thirsty.
Clothes make a statement. Costumes tell a story.
Forgiveness is like faith. You have to keep reviving it.
Reading gives us someplace to go when we have to stay where we are.
Faith moves mountains, but you have to keep pushing while you are praying.
Imagination has rules, but we can only guess what they are.
Life is not at the mercy of matter.
I never had that thing about being black. If the whole world was like that, maybe there would be more harmony and love.
Symbolism and meaning are two separate things. I think she found the right words by bypassing procedures like meaning and logic. She captured words in a dream, like delicately catching hold of a butterfly’s wings as it flutters around. Artists are those who can evade the verbose.
Want of prudence is too frequently the want of virtue.