To Realise Our Dreams We Must Decide

One Day I Realized I Was Living In A Country Where I Was Afraid To Be Black. It Was Only A Country For White People. Not Black. So I Left. I Had Been Suffocating In The United States... A Lot Of Us Left, Not Because We Wanted To Leave, But Because We Couldn't Stand It Anymore... I Felt Liberated In Paris.

I Have Never Really Been A Great Artist. I Have Been A Human Being That Has Loved Art, Which Is Not The Same Thing. But I Have Loved And Believed In Art And The Idea Of Universal Brotherhood So Much, That I Have Put Everything I Have Into Them, And I Have Been Blessed.

Is That What They Call A Vocation, What You Do With Joy As If You Had Fire In Your Heart, The Devil In Your Body?

Sex Was A Pleasurable Form Of Exercise, Like Dancing.

Each Time I Leaped I Seemed To Touch The Sky And When I Regained Earth It Seemed To Be Mine Alone.