The closer a Negro got to the ballot box, the more he looked like a rapist.

Educational institutes can no longer be prizes in church politics or furnish berths for failure in other walks of life.

Education in the past has been too much inspiration and too little information.

The closer a Negro got to the ballot box, the more he looked like a rapist.

America faces a new race that has awakened.

I like to draw my storyboards myself.

I have to experience all the ghastly, bottomless depths for life for myself; it's for that reason that I went to war, and for that reason I volunteered.

After getting out of the service and going into baseball I never wanted to do anything else.

When you look out the window of a spaceship, you see entire countries, vast swaths of continents. One turn of the head covers what once took thousands of years to traverse at ground level.

Working on my own gave me a chance to take my time and experiment a lot.

Imagine this guy hits Mike Hammer over the head with a wooden coathanger and knocks him out. You hit Mike Hammer over the head with a wooden coathanger, he'll beat the crap out of you.

Black people lived right by the railroad tracks, and the train would shake their houses at night. I would hear it as a boy, and I thought: I'm gonna make a song that sounds like that.

Losing my father made me want to find out if I could come up with a version of God or the afterlife that I could feel like was acceptable now that both my parents are in it.

In the ongoing celebration that is literature, we are asked to imagine ourselves as other selves, for better or worse.

No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear.

The first misconception is that embryonic stem cell research is not legal. The fact is, embryonic stem cell research is completely legal. Research on embryonic stem cells has taken place for years.

I'm really easily affected by horror films. I have pretty strong reactions to them.

If you've never tasted what it's like to get up in the morning and be pleased to go to work, you don't know what you're missing.

Straight-away the ideas flow in upon me, directly from God, and not only do I see distinct themes in my mind's eye, but they are clothed in the right forms, harmonies, and orchestration.

Freedom is always the freedom of dissenters.

I hated Peter O'Toole. I wanted to kill that guy! When they said he was dead, I was happy. People said, 'Poor Peter O'Toole.' I was happy!

There are major advantages to remaining out of the radio for a long time before we have something that crosses into the mainstream properly.

When a movie is about to come out on its initial debut, there are a lot of people involved - the financiers, the studio and the producers and also, many times, the foreign distributors. So it is a time of tremendous pressure and uncertainty.

Believe it can be done. When you believe something can be done really believe your mind will find the ways to do it. Believing a solution paves the way to solution.

All great art is the work of the whole living creature, body and soul, and chiefly of the soul.

When people talk about conservative government, that's it in a nutshell. We're using taxpayers' money like we would use our own. We're holding in the reins during good times so we're prepared during bad times.

Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anybody else expects of you. Never excuse yourself. Never pity yourself. Be a hard master to yourself-and be lenient to everybody else.

I don't really shop any more. I only do it when I have to. I think it is very overrated.

On the contrary a film can promote the idea of change without any political message whatsoever but in its form and language can tell people that they can change their lives and contribute to progressive changes in the world.