America is the civilization of people engaged in transforming themselves. In the past, the stars of the performance were the pioneer and the immigrant. Today, it is youth and the Black.

The aim of every authentic artist is not to conform to the history of art, but to release himself from it in order to replace it with his own history.

What better way to prove that you understand a subject than to make money out of it?

The purpose of education is to keep a culture from being drowned in senseless repetitions, each of which claims to offer a new insight.