"You can't reason with your heart; it has its own laws, and thumps about things which the intellect scorns."

“What price would God demand from the churches for having the audacity to lighten the color of his son's skin, and straighten out his nappy hair?”

“Win, lose or draw, you're all my cousins and I love you.”

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

“Brazil obviously connotes something in my mind to do with desire, sexuality and freedom. In fantasy, in mythology, Rio is the iconography of the imagination. In essence, we're all sex tourists. I've never been to Rio and I've never been to a psychoanalytic convention, but in a sense, Rio is symbolic of desire, some sort of ultimate ecstasy.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

“May your marriage bring you all the exquisite excitements a marriage should bring, and may life grant you also patience, tolerance, and understanding.”

“I see all this talent, all this...this energy and brightness and...potential. Yes. Potential. And I cannot for the life of me see how you can be content to live this tiny life. This life that will take place almost entirely within a five mile radius and contain nobody who will ever surprise you or push you or show you things that will leave your head spinning and unable to sleep at night.”

“Nativity is the enemy of prophecy.”

Source : "United States of Banana". Book by Giannina Braschi, 2011.

“I'm not ashamed of being gay, never have been and never will be. For that I have no apologies”

“Antioxidants have a good effect on certain forms of Crohn's disease.”

Source : "Mary Ann Mobley: going public about a private disease". Saturday Evening Post Interview with Cory SerVaas, January 1, 1994.