"By all accounts, the senate race I ran in was a quality race in the wrong year."

“It's one thing in this business to actually work. 5 percent of the Screen Actors' Guild works. It's another thing to do work that's satisfying and that people are loving.”

“I don't trust white critics' judgment about most things that deal with black life, particularly when a black person is the creator.”

“We destroy things with our curiosity. We shatter with our best intentions”

“Beware of organizations that proclaim their devotion to the light without embracing, bowing to the dark; for when they idealize half the world they must devalue the rest.”

Source : Starhawk (2012). “Dreaming the Dark”, p.48, Beacon Press

“The reaction you got was the communication you intended.”

“A good song has to have a great melody, and the lyrics have to touch my heart. Now, if it's just a little toe-tapper, got to make me feel good somehow or another, or when I sing it I can't make you feel good.”

Source : "Larry King Live", edition.cnn.com. December 25, 2005.

“Experience is making mistakes and learning from them.”

Source : "Bill Ackman Says Herbalife Will Be On The Verge Of Death In The Next 12 Months" by Julia La Roche, www.businessinsider.com. November 5, 2013.

“Television programming for children need not be saccharine or insipid in order to give to violence its proper balance in the scheme of things.... But as an endless diet for the sake of excitement and sensation in stories whose plots are vehicles for killing and torture and little more, it is not healthy for young children. Unfamiliar as yet with the full story of human response, they are being misled when they are offered perversion before they have fully learned what is sound.”