Am Quotes

I am for violence if non-violence means we continue postponing a solution to the American black man's problem just to avoid violence.

I mean I appreciate fan mail and that the people like what I am doing but I can't answer it. If I would answer 25 letters a day I would be just a guy answering mail and not an artist anymore.

I am certain of nothing but the holiness of the heart's affections, and the truth of imagination.

Faith is part of who I am, yes. I was raised Christian Scientist. The most important thing I saw every single week on the wall at Sunday school was the Golden Rule.

They may call me a sinner, but I am at peace with myself.

I am pretty honest about a lot of things that young girls question, like their body image.

I am deliberate and afraid of nothing.

I am confident I will set foot again in Tibet in my lifetime.

At times I think and at times I am.

Every time I am in danger of believing the glamour of my own press, some incident inevitably brings me back to earth.

My grandfather was coloured, my father was Negro, and I am Black.

I am sometimes a fox and sometimes a lion. The whole secret of government lies in knowing when to be the one or the other.

I do have a close circle of friends and I am very fortunate to have them as friends. I feel very close to them I think friends are everything in life after your family. You come across lots of people all the time but you only make very few friends and you have to be true to them otherwise what's the point in life?

Contrary to the claims of some of my critics and some of the editorial pages, I am an ardent believer in the free market.

I am a woman with absolutely no sense of nostalgia.

I am mindful not only of preserving executive powers for myself, but for predecessors as well.

In the US, there is basically one party - the business party. It has two factions, called Democrats and Republicans, which are somewhat different but carry out variations on the same policies. By and large, I am opposed to those policies. As is most of the population.

My mom has made it possible for me to be who I am. Our family is everything. Her greatest skill was encouraging me to find my own person and own independence.

I am patient with stupidity but not with those who are proud of it.

I am happy that Poland is returning to the road of pluralism and democracy.

I think I am seeing more clearly now than ever.

Am I a romantic? I've seen 'Wuthering Heights' ten times. I'm a romantic.

I'm not artistic nor am I all that creative.

I don't oppose all wars. What I am opposed to is a dumb war. What I am opposed to is a rash war.

I have pushed the boat out as far as I should in terms of taking on too many things. I'm getting older and I just could not take it any more. I am now monitoring myself very closely and I'm just trying not to get into that sort of state again.

I care not so much what I am to others as what I am to myself. I will be rich by myself, and not by borrowing.

I am concerned about the whole man. I am concerned about what the people, using their government as an instrument and a tool, can do toward building the whole man, which will mean a better society and a better world.

I am a leader. Leaders always get heat. They're always going against the grain. Jimi Hendrix got heat; Bob Marley got heat; Miles Davis got heat. Every great artist got heat. Heat means you're doing something right.

If there is a transmigration of souls then I am not yet on the bottom rung. My life is a hesitation before birth.

I leave you my portrait so that you will have my presence all the days and nights that I am away from you.