Me Quotes

Every bit of me is devoted to love and art. And I aspire to try to be a teacher to my young fans who feel just like I felt when I was younger. I just felt like a freak. I guess what I'm trying to say is I'm trying to liberate them, I want to free them of their fears and make them feel that they can make their own space in the world.

It's irksome to read about someone I don't recognize. It frightens me.

Not being beautiful was the true blessing. Not being beautiful forced me to develop my inner resources. The pretty girl has a handicap to overcome.

I am very humble, and I am very gracious and very grateful for everything that happens to me and about me and around me.

I will not be concerned at other men's not knowing me;I will be concerned at my own want of ability.

I get a kick out of being an outsider constantly. It allows me to be creative.

If you ask me anything I don't know, I'm not going to answer.

Now I'm fighting cancer, everybody knows that. People ask me all the time about how you go through your life and how's your day, and nothing is changed for me.

I read and walked for miles at night along the beach, writing bad blank verse and searching endlessly for someone wonderful who would step out of the darkness and change my life. It never crossed my mind that that person could be me.

Really I feel less keen about the Army every day. I think the Church would suit me better.

In criticism I will be bold, and as sternly, absolutely just with friend and foe. From this purpose nothing shall turn me.

On Sunday morning, I'm not nervous... I can't wait to tell what God wants me to say.

I'm black, I don't feel burdened by it and I don't think it's a huge responsibility. It's part of who I am. It does not define me.

Nobody can hurt me without my permission.

I think when I listen to old records, it puts me back in the atmosphere of what it felt like to make the record and who was there and what the room looked like. It's more a sensory memory.

And by the way I don't object if people want to attack me, that's their right. All I'm suggesting that it's not going to be very effective and that people are going to get sick of it very fast. And the guys who attacked each other in the debates up to now, every single one of them have lost ground by attacking.

Sometimes I think my husband is so amazing that I don't know why he's with me. I don't know whether I'm good enough. But if I make him happy, then I'm everything I want to be.

O Lord, help me not to despise or oppose what I do not understand.

If I read a book and it makes my whole body so cold no fire can ever warm me, I know that is poetry.

I have three kinds of friends: those who love me, those who pay no attention to me, and those who detest me.

I do not like the man who squanders life for fame; give me the man who living makes a name.

They did it to try and belittle me, to try and to take away my pride. But I went through the whole system with them. And at the end, I - I wanted the public to know that I was okay, even though I was hurting.

I like long walks, especially when they are taken by people who annoy me.

I myself spent nine years in an insane asylum and I never had the obsession of suicide, but I know that each conversation with a psychiatrist, every morning at the time of his visit, made me want to hang myself, realizing that I would not be able to cut his throat.

The Jews don't like Farrakhan, so they call me Hitler. Well, that's a good name. Hitler was a very great man.

My mom brought me up to believe that my talent is a gift and a blessing.

My childhood should have taught me lessons for my own fatherhood, but it didn't because parenting can only be learned by people who have no children.

I know you are here to kill me. Shoot, coward, you are only going to kill a man.

Whenever anyone has offended me, I try to raise my soul so high that the offense cannot reach it.

The friend in my adversity I shall always cherish most. I can better trust those who helped to relieve the gloom of my dark hours than those who are so ready to enjoy with me the sunshine of my prosperity.