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Before slavery, Africa had a culture. We had medicine and our cure for malaria. Slavery brought diseases that we were not used to; slavery brought industry and people were criticizing industry way back as 2,000 years ago, that it was going to pollute the air, sea. Industry is not the way. We must deal with nature.

Before slavery Medicine Malaria
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Being a dancer and a singer gave me some advantage with regards to having a stage presence. I always take my timing from the audience because they are half of my act.

Act Advantage Always Audience
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Anyone can be confident with a full head of hair. But a confident bald man - there's your diamond in the rough.

Anyone Bald Confident Diamond
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I have a dead goat syndrome
Dead Goat Syndrome
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I don't think anyone really is interested in reading about my emotional state. It's not even interesting to me.

About Anyone Emotional Even
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I think that for the most part, when I started doing comedy, it had become very commercialized.

Become Comedy Doing Had
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I was planning on my future as a homeless person. I had a really good spot picked out.

Future Good Had Homeless
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Most of the time I'm thinking, I'm glad that scene was improvised.

Glad Improvised Most Scene
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There are times in life when, instead of complaining, you do something about your complaints.

About Complaining Complaints Instead
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Sure, being a reservist wasn't as glamorous, but I was the one who had to look at myself in the mirror.

Being Glamorous Had Look
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For years, I had heard about the lack of interest in literature in the U.S. and I had complained about it. I failed to understand how people could fail to be moved by art.

About Art Could Fail
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There are times when I'm driving home after a day's shooting, thinking to myself, That scene would've been so much better if I had written it out.

After Been Better Day
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Hear the birds? Sometimes I like to pretend that I'm deaf and I try to imagine what it's like not to be able to hear them. It's not that bad.

Able Bad Birds Deaf
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Being Poet Laureate made me realize I was capable of a larger voice. There is a more public utterance I can make as a poet.

Being Capable Larger Laureate
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I guess I still feel that I'm a comedian; if I had to pick one thing that I feel like I could do, it would be that. That doesn't mean that I like it, but I feel that's what I am.

Am Comedian Could Feel
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I was very fortunate to hook up with Jerry in the first place. The network was already committed to doing something with him, so I skipped a couple of hundred steps right there.

Committed Couple Doing First
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Millions of people are married. I've never picked up a paper and seen a headline that says, Man Gets Married!

Gets Headline Man Married
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I tell people that I've now done one decent thing in my life. Albeit inadvertently.

Albeit Decent Done Inadvertently
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… Many African leaders have realized that they can no longer be the “adversaries’ of the private sector. They must work with entrepreneurs.

Leaders Realized Adversaries Private sector
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I had a job as a paralegal. I drove a cab.

Cab Drove Had Job
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I think reading Shakespeare's plays when I was young was extremely important. He had the ability to make utter strangers come alive.

Ability Alive Come Extremely
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I can't stand reading anything that I've said.

Anything Reading Said Stand
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My favorite poets may not be your bread and butter. I have more favorite poems than favorite poets.

Bread Butter Favorite May
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Any model adopted must drive towards intended outcomes.

Model Adopted Drive Intended
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The sound of the mandolin is a very curious sound because it's cheerful and melancholy at the same time, and I think it comes from that shadow string, the double strings.

Because Cheerful Curious Double
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The first lady is, and always has been, an unpaid public servant elected by one person, her husband.

Always Been Elected First
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Almost all serious stories in the world are stories of failure with a death in it. But there is more lost paradise in them than defeat.

Serious stories World Failure Death
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I always wanted to be a father. I have a beautiful relationship with my dad and beautiful memories. I always knew I was going to have a family.

Always Beautiful Dad Family
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Every family is different. I am mom and I am dad and I'm going to do my best. You should be proud, walk through life saying I have the coolest family. I am part of a modern family.

Am Best Coolest Dad
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I dont believe in learning from other peoples pictures. I think you should learn from your own interior vision of things and discover, as I say, Innocently, as though there had never been anybody.

Believe Learning Peoples pictures
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Buddha's teaching are very simple, you don't have to break your head to understand the message. The part that I like the most from Buddha's teachings and from His Holiness, The Dalai Lama, is that the most powerful weapon is to not attack, to be able to have self-control.

Able Attack Break Buddha
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Beautiful woman nah bad oooo. Them no dey talk truth

Beautiful women Bad Talk truth
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These years in silence and reflection made me stronger and reminded me that acceptance has to come from within and that this kind of truth gives me the power to conquer emotions I didn't even know existed.

Acceptance Come Conquer Emotions
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When someone isn't ready we must not try to force them out. People are being bullied and committing suicide because they're gay and it's horrible.

Because Being Bullied Committing
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I love Adele. When I see her, I may kiss Adele.
Adele Her ILove ISee
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My father watched all the 'Star Trek' and 'Star Wars' that you could imagine, along with the martial arts. So I was into all that as a youngster, and I always rooted for the bad guy.

Along Always Arts Bad
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I used to tremble from nerves so badly that the only way I could hold my head steady was to lower my chin practically to my chest and look up at Bogie. That was the beginning of The Look.

Badly Beginning Chest Chin
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I put my career in second place throughout both my marriages and it suffered. I don't regret it. You make choices. If you want a good marriage, you must pay attention to that. If you want to be independent, go ahead. You can't have it all.

Ahead Attention Both Career
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I hated it when people tried to force me out when I wasn't ready. It was very painful, and it actually pushed me away from doing so.

Actually Away Doing Force
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If I had spent a quarter of the time that I spent manipulating my sexuality in front of a piano instead, I would be the most gifted piano player of my lifetime.
Front Gifted Had Instead
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When Rick Ross made 'Hustlin',' Rick Ross also helped those producers become some of the biggest producers in the world.

Also Become Biggest Helped
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If the citizens aren’t using their HEADS, the leaders will use theirs
Citizens Heads Leaders Use
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I used to work for 12 or 14 hours at a time but the digital age has made such happy immersions almost impossible.

Age Almost Digital Happy
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I keep a quotes journal - of every sentence that I've wanted to remember from my reading of the past 30 years.

Every Journal Keep Past
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Out of grad school, I worked as a tech writer for a while before going into computer coding for a living.

Before Computer Going Grad
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The thing that makes reading and writing suspect in the eyes of the market economy is that it's not corrupted.

Corrupted Economy Eyes Makes
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Reading is the last act of secular prayer.
Act Last Prayer Reading
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We build our technologies as a way of addressing all our anxieties and desires. They are our passions congealed into these prosthetic extensions of ourselves. And they do it in a way that reflects what we dream ourselves capable of doing.

Addressing Anxieties Build Capable
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I would never advocate violence on Trump or anyone.

Advocate Anyone Never Trump
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In 25 years of writing novels, I've never had anything that felt like writer's block.
Anything Block Felt Had
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