"To achieve charity, we must submit, become patient, meek, humble. . . . We must exercise the love of God as a power."

“I was always looking at Helmut Newton photos with the Le Smoking suit and Stella Tennant in Self Service magazine. It was never just about an ultrafeminine woman for me.”

Source : Source: wwd.com

“We grew up founding our dreams on the infinite promise of American advertising. I still believe that one can learn to play the piano by mail and that mud will give you a perfect complexion.”

“I also believe that you are what you have to defend, and if you're a black man that's always going to be the bar against which you are judged, whether you want to align yourself with those themes or not. You can think of yourself as a colourless person, but nobody else is gonna.”

Source : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

“It's a waste of energy to think about what somebody else is doing and how they doing it. I'ma just do what I do.”

Source : "DMX. Here I Am". XXL interview, www.cnet.com. March 14, 2008.

“The best writing is certainly when you are in love”

“Words are like Leaves; and where they most abound, Much Fruit of Sense beneath is rarely found.”

“The functionaries of every government have propensities to command at will the liberty and property of their constituents. There is no safe deposit for these but with the people themselves, nor can they be safe with them without information. Where the press is free, and every man able to read, all is safe.”

“Moral power is always more dangerous to an oppressor than political force.”