I can't speak for readers in general, but personally I like to read stories behind which there is some truth, something real and above all, something emotional. I don't like to read essays on literature; I don't like to read critical or rational or impersonal or cold disquisitions on subjects.

I believe very much in sensual powers as a means of obtaining understanding.

As a teacher I realize that what one learns in school doesn't serve for very much at all, that the only thing one can really learn is self-understanding, and this is something that can't be taught.

The kitchen is where we deal with the elements of the universe. It is where we come to understand our past and ourselves.

I was about 12 when I heard my first Lenny Bruce record. He was already dead. But it changed my life and really did change the world.

You grow up a lot on set, but it doesn't change you.

Money has changed today's black athletes. Those who have the ability as African men to bring a change in a community that so desperately needs it are concentrating only on their own careers, some charities and how much money they can make.

I had a lot of different thoughts and ideas and always to transform, but I'm trying certain things that I feel my heart is really going for and that was one of the things that I initiated a few months ago.