"You can only be free as an artist if you're free as a person."

“Learning is better worth than houses or land.”

Source : George Crabbe, John Crabbe (1834). “The poetical works of the Rev. George Crabbe: in eight volumes”, p.284

“Woman's ability to earn money is better protection against the tyranny and brutality of men than her ability to vote.”

“Comedy is the last refuge of the non-comformist mind.”

“Many a false step is made standing still.”

Source : Patti Labelle (2003). “Patti Labelle's Lite Cuisine”, p.109, Penguin

“My mom had gotten a Super 8 camera to make home movies with, and my brother and me got our hands on it and ran with it.”

Source : "Life is funny. And mundane. Just like in a cartoon by Lev" by Jane Ganahl, www.sfgate.com. November 16, 2004.

“Where the people possess no authority, their rights obtain no respect.”

“A lot of people they don’t know that Africans even named the stars, that different peoples, different so-called native peoples, have their own names for the stars, and have star charts just as accurate as the Chinese star charts, which are more ancient than the European star charts or even the Arabic ones or the star charts of the New World civilizations. Everybody’s got their own cosmology. Everybody’s got their own description of the universe.”

“Explore your limits and get to know yourself. You'll never feel more real than after the hardest workout, the longest run, the toughest week, or the best race of your life. Constantly make your own standards tougher.”