I am charismatic with roots of the Pentecostal.

God wants you well. God wants you prosperous. God wants you a whole person.

Well, I can't figure out God.

I am charismatic with roots of the Pentecostal.

Ego is the great enemy. Ego will hold you back every single time.

Titles or organizational structures, that's not the lens through which we see our peers.

I will not leave South Africa, nor will I surrender. Only through hardship, sacrifice and militant action can freedom be won. The struggle is my life. I will continue fighting for freedom until the end of my days.

I think that has to do with my awareness that in a sense we all have a certain measure of responsibility to those who have made it possible for us to take advantage of the opportunities.

Authority, when first detecting chaos at its heels, will entertain the vilest schemes to save its orderly facade.

The titanic effort that has brought liberation to South Africa, and ensured the total liberation of Africa, constitutes an act of redemption for the black people of the world.

A simple idea. And the man that worked on it, Mike Gabriel, doubled the value. Beautiful job. I should say triple. We have others like that, but, unfortunately, shorts, which are my favorite approach, are economically of no value.

I think I'm most proud of the fact that I have figured out how to exist as both a creative person and artist, and a businesswoman and manager. Because those two things do not go together.

I play piano and guitar. Acoustic guitar. I tried studying classical guitar when I was 16 but it got really hard. I could never play a lead to save my life.

No student ever attains very eminent success by simply doing what is required of him: it is the amount and excellence of what is over and above the required, that determines the greatness of ultimate distinction.

I thought I'd never do film, let alone television. I was a diehard theater nut.

I am not a performing seal. In your writing, you are tapping into the part that is 'the best' in you. But what you are also filters through in your writing your prejudices, your bitterness. I am not a pretentious person.

You have to have an overall vision of how you want people to see you.

Daddy loves you, but he smacks you, and he can shout at you and smash things, but Daddy still loves you. So when you get into a relationship with someone who does all of that, why would it be unusual?

It's easy to impress me. I don't need a fancy party to be happy. Just good friends, good food, and good laughs. I'm happy. I'm satisfied. I'm content.

Sometimes you're encouraged, and other times disappointed. It's a matter of going in and precluding all that with, 'This is what I do, not who I am.' I need to be who I am in the process of doing what I do. I need to stay true to what it is I'm really here for. And that's the hardest thing, the biggest challenge.

I seem to always inspire a strong reaction one way or the other.

I need some isolation, it's necessary to me, that's just who I am. I need to be left alone.

Freedom of speech means freedom for those who you despise and freedom to express the most despicable views. It also means that the government cannot pick and choose which expressions to authorize and which to prevent.

At this very moment in time there will be people making, breaking relationships, regretting deeply what they've done, and causing hurt, but that is a fact of life, and if we weren't full of emotion, we'd be automatons, and I don't think people want us to be that.

In the 'Nude Descending a Staircase,' I wanted to create a static image of movement: movement is an abstraction, a deduction articulated within the painting, without our knowing if a real person is or isn't descending an equally real staircase.

I think you have to let go of this idea that you can be precious about everything, and let it be the abstract mess that it is.

To me, God comes first, my family come second. If I fail at those two, I'm just playing games.

Sometimes you have to stop thinking so much and just go where your heart takes you.