"I was raised in a completely black world. In those days, if a white woman married a black man, she lived as a black woman, and that was just the end of it. So, I don't have a feeling of being bi-racial. I don't have a connection to it. People often come up to me thinking I do have a connection to it, and I kind of let them down because I really don't."

“A show that no one thought had a chance has just finished its fifth year: Charmed. I think it's tougher for the younger networks, so I think they have a little more patience for the sake of the show. But who knows?”

“The thing is to be happy,' he said. 'No matter what. Just try that. You can. It gets to be easier and easier. It's nothing to do with circumstances. You wouldn't believe how good it is. Accept everything and then tragedy disappears. Or tragedy lightens, anyway, you're just there, going along easy in the world.”

“Music is decisions, and I decide for me what are brilliant decisions.”

Source : "Missed Opportunities". Interview with Marc Masters and Grayson Currin, pitchfork.com. March 19, 2010.

“Placing blame on others is easy. Taking responsibility for yourself is empowering.”

Source : Tony Dicicco, Colleen Hacker, Charles Salzberg (2003). “Catch Them Being Good: Everything You Need to Know to Successfully Coach Girls”, p.123, Penguin

“There is no one who cannot derive great help and great benefit from learning; but there are also only a few people who do not receive a great harm from the light and knowledge they have received by learning, unless they use their knowledge in a manner both fit and natural for them.”

“I've always written very tightly, and there's a good reason for that. There's no point in using words that you're not going to apply.”

“An interface is humane if it is responsive to human needs and considerate of human frailties.”

Source : Jef Raskin (2000). “The Humane Interface: New Directions for Designing Interactive Systems”, p.6, Addison-Wesley Professional

“This whole tribal loyalty seems to have gone.”

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