I long, as does every human being, to be at home wherever I find myself.

I like a good pair of jeans, but I also like putting on a nice tux. I’d rather go around in a good pair of jeans that you don’t wash every day, because they get more and more comfortable.

I am not part of the problem. I am a Republican.

When people get taken over by the ego to such an extent, there is nothing else in their mind except the ego. They can no longer feel or sense their humanity – what they share with other human beings, or even with other life forms on the planet. They are so identified with concepts in their minds that other human beings become concepts as well.

I saw a picture of myself when I came out of the hospital. I didn’t recognize myself.

Happy the man whose wish and care a few paternal acres bound, content to breathe his native air in his own ground.

My home is in Heaven. I’m just traveling through this world.

I love New York. I’m a guy for whom a New York accent is a comforting thing.

At home I am a nice guy: but I don’t want the world to know. Humble people, I’ve found, don’t get very far.

Funk, I don’t think I have anything to do with funk. I’ve never considered myself funky.

I don’t write with a machine. I write with a pen and a paper, which is what is most comfortable for me.

Is solace anywhere more comforting than that in the arms of a sister.

Better do a good deed near at home than go far away to burn incense.

Love begins by taking care of the closest ones – the ones at home.

If you feel that there’s the author and then the character, then the book is not working. People have a habit of identifying the author with the narrator, and you can’t, obviously, be all of the narrators in all of your books, or else you’d be a very strange person indeed.

Remember, we are not human beings having a spiritual experience. We are spiritual beings having a human experience.

Going home helps the content.

Sometimes a nickname is used instead of the real name. But a nickname may offend either the one named or the parents who gave the name.

There is much to support the view that it is clothes that wear us, and not we, them; we may make them take the mould of arm or breast, but they mould our hearts, our brains, our tongues to their liking.

Everyone, no doubt, remains first and foremost a man of his own country and continues to draw from it his motive force.

If somebody thinks they’re a hedgehog, presumably you just give ‚em a mirror and a few pictures of hedgehogs and tell them to sort it out for themselves.

It’s a very strange thing being recognized or looked upon as someone special.

Another belief of mine; that everyone else my age is an adult, whereas I am merely in disguise.

To understand a name you must be acquainted with the particular of which it is a name.

None of the records I make are ever a deliberate construction – they’re always an expression of who I am at the time and where I am in my life.

For Africa to me… is more than a glamorous fact. It is a historical truth. No man can know where he is going unless he knows exactly where he has been and exactly how he arrived at his present place.

We lived in a tall, narrow Victorian house, which my parents had bought very cheaply during the war, when everyone thought London was going to be bombed flat. In fact, a V-2 rocket landed a few houses away from ours. I was away with my mother and sister at the time, but my father was in the house.

By the sole fact of his entering into ‚Thought,‘ man represents something entirely singular and absolutely unique in the field of our experience. On a single planet, there could not be more than one centre of emergence for reflexion.

I’m confident in who I am. I’ve come to a place in my life where I’ve accepted things that are me, as opposed to feeling pressure to explain myself to people around me. That’s just the way I’ve always tried to be. It didn’t change when I became a star.

I try never to wear my own clothes, I pretend I’m someone else.

Cassius Clay is a name that white people gave to my slave master. Now that I am free, that I don’t belong anymore to anyone, that I’m not a slave anymore, I gave back their white name, and I chose a beautiful African one.

I’d like to be known for more than being the guy in the big suit.

In the West, as well as some other parts of the world, the personal sense of ego tends to predominate, whereas in other areas, there is a more collective sense of ego. This collective ego emphasizes the ‚we‘ rather than the ‚I.‘

I don’t know what ‚normal‘ means, anyway.

I wanted to imbue Ziggy with real flesh and blood and muscle, and it was imperative that I find Ziggy and be him.

I think it’s important as an artist to never forget where you’re from.

I want everybody to understand that I am an American Negro first before I am a member of any political party.

I think being an atheist is something you are, not something you do.

People think I’m a celebrity. I’m not a celebrity.

The reason people think it’s important to be white is that they think it’s important not to be black.

I just like to have words that describe things correctly. Now to me, ‚black feminist‘ does not do that. I need a word that is organic, that really comes out of the culture, that really expresses the spirit that we see in black women. And it’s just… womanish.

We Jews have a secret weapon in our struggle with the Arabs; we have no place to go.

A true friend encourages us, comforts us, supports us like a big easy chair, offering us a safe refuge from the world.

When you call yourself an Indian or a Muslim or a Christian or a European or anything else, you are being violent. Do you see why it is violent? Because you are separating yourself from the rest of mankind. When you separate yourself by belief, by nationality, by tradition, it breeds violence.

Truthfully, without over-egging it, as I often do, the library and journalism, those things made me who I am.

You know, when you don’t go on TV and talk about how many women you sleep with, some people in Hollywood, that are supposedly ‚in the know,‘ start whispering that you’re gay. If I were gay, I wouldn’t be ashamed to admit it, but I’m not.

I am what time, circumstance, history, have made of me, certainly, but I am also, much more than that. So are we all.

I’ve always felt quite singular, even as a child. That I must stay on track to keep my purpose.

I just feel so much more comfortable and confident every game I play.

If you’re always under the pressure of real identity, I think that is somewhat of a burden.

This man is frank and earnest with women. In Fresno, he’s Frank and in Chicago he’s Ernest.

It’s hard to articulate how I think about myself as a public figure.

I don’t see myself as a pop artist. Like, when you hear ‚pop,‘ you’re like, ‚Oh, bubblegum, jumpy little girly stuff,‘ and I feel like, ‚Uh-uh. That’s not me.‘

Bob Marley isn’t my name. I don’t even know my name yet.

I do sometimes look back at things I’ve written in the past, and think, ‚I just don’t remember being the person who wrote that.‘

I have much more support than most women around this world, and I have the financial means to have a home and help with care and food.

If you deny people their own voice, you’ll have no idea of who they were.

I started being really proud of the fact that I was gay even though I wasn’t.

I think that people just have this core desire to express who they are. And I think that’s always existed.

The person we believe ourselves to be will always act in a manner consistent with our self-image.

I’m a child of God first. Before I became a celebrity, I was baptized a Christian.