“Ignore all hatred and criticism. Live for what you create, and die protecting it.”

So basically I did this whole show carrying 100lbs, looking out of one eye, dancing – and then my tits explode at the end. It’s not as easy as it looks!

Once you kill a cow, you gotta make a burger

Its okay to be sad. I’ve been trained to love my darkness

I’m a little bit naked, but that’s okay.

I want to liberate them, I want to free them of their fears and make them feel that they can create their own space in the world

People will always talk, so lets give them somethin’ to talk about

Sometimes in life you don’t always feel like a winner, but that doesn’t mean you’re not a winner.

Don’t you ever let a soul in the world tell you that you can’t be exactly who you are.

Well my music was different in high school; I was singing about love—you know, things I don’t care about anymore.

My fashion is part of who I am, and though I was not born with these clothes on, I was born this way.

Art perpetuates beauty. Beauty is a symptom of the force that is nature. You are a force of nature, I love you.

Glam culture is ultimately rooted in obsession, and those of us who are truly devoted and loyal to the lifestyle of glamour are masters of its history. Or, to put it more elegantly, we are librarians.

This is who the fuck I am.

I’m just a holy fool

I’m a free bitch baby.

It’s cooler to be strong.

This world was not created piecemeal. Africa was born no later and no earlier than any other geographical area on this globe. Africans, no more and no less than other men, possess all human attributes, talents and deficiencies, virtues and faults.

Your body is not your art – it’s your paintbrush. Whether your paintbrush is a tall paintbrush or a thin paintbrush or a stocky paintbrush or a scratched up paintbrush is completely irrelevant.

There is no drop of water in the ocean, not even in the deepest parts of the abyss, that does not know and respond to the mysterious forces that create the tide.

Creativity is a huge part of my game as a player. It helps open doors which others don’t see.

When it comes to atoms, language can be used only as in poetry. The poet, too, is not nearly so concerned with describing facts as with creating images and establishing mental connections.

Justice requires us to remember that when any citizen denies his fellow, saying, ‘His color is not mine,’ or ‘His beliefs are strange and different,’ in that moment he betrays America, though his forebears created this nation.

Knowledge is power. If it is not applied properly to create, let there be no doubts, it will destroy.

You can become a Communist only when you enrich your mind with a knowledge of all the treasures created by mankind.