Identity Is An Assemblage Of Constellations.

You Hang Around Actors, Or Dancers, The Minute You Sneeze, Everybody Has A Remedy, And We're All On A Million Different Kinds Of Diets, And Different Kinds Of Things That We Do For Exercise.

Each Person Has A Literature Inside Them.

Do You Want To Be An Artist So That The Whole World Will Look At You, Or Do You Want To Be An Artist Because You Would Like To Use Your Ability To Attract Attention, To Have The World See Itself Through You Differently?

I Feel Like My Work Has Been My Path To Freedom From Having Grown Up In A Segregated Environment.

People Realize That We're Very Good At Sending People To War, But We're Not Good At Taking Care Of Them. And People Are Coming Back From War Now; Years Ago, They Would Have Been Killed, Now They're Wounded; And They're Coming Back Alive And With Post-traumatic Stress. So, I Think Americans Are Sensible Enough To Know We've Got To Figure Out A Way To Take Care Of Them.