But that was the problem with having the answers. It was only after you gave them that you realized they sometimes weren't what people wanted to hear.
If you're not nervous then you're not paying attention.
Anybody can play. The note is only 20 percent. The attitude of the motherfucker who plays it is 80 percent.
It's not the note you play that's the wrong note - it's the note you play afterwards that makes it right or wrong.
If somebody told me I only had an hour to live, I'd spend it choking a white man. I'd do it nice and slow.
A painting is music you can see and music is a painting you can hear.
It's not about standing still and becoming safe. If anybody wants to keep creating they have to be about change.
I do not think it pleases the Lord when we worry because we think we never do enough or that what we do is never good enough.
The line of communication between God and man is always open unless broken by man himself. We are, as it were, always in the presence of our Father in Heaven. Through His Holy Spirit, God is with us always and everywhere.
Bill Cosby is a famous black guy who has a bully pulpit the size of the world; it's global. He puts his colossal foot on the vulnerable necks of poor people, and as a result of that, we don't have a balanced conversation.
. . . and I confess that, like a child, I cry. Ah, self-pity; I think we are at our most honest and sincere when we feel sorry for ourselves.