"The President of the United States, if you remove his blackness, then just ask the question, is he a good President or is he a bad President for the United States? Just remove the blackness and make that decision."

“Most of us are shrinking in the face of psycho-social and physical poisons, of the toxins of our world. But compassion, the generation of compassion, actually mobilizes our immunity.”

“One of the most widespread diseases is diagnosis.”

“I became religious and at 14 went to a boarding school 500 miles from home to begin theological studies. By the time I started university, politics had replaced religion in the economy of my enthusiasms but I had no idea what to study. My boarding school emphasized languages which I was bad at, and deemphasized math and science which I was good at.”

“A poet's words are of things that do not exist without the words.”

Source : Wallace Stevens (2011). “The Necessary Angel: Essays on Reality and the Imagination”, p.32, Vintage

“I have always believed that what goes around comes around.”

“There's something rotten in the state of Denmark, and Hamlet says...it's payback time!”

“I was being an artist, being sensitive and technical as artists are. I'm sure Leonardo Da Vinci did that. Artists don't always feel the same as others feel about their work.”

Source : "Ubiquity Still Virgin After All These Years: An Interview with Roy Ayers". Interview with Matt Rogers, www.popmatters.com. February 2, 2004.

“I just don't think there's a sunscreen that gives you enough protection.”