"It's not a character like in a book or a movie. He's not a bus driver. He doesn't drive a forklift. He's not a serial killer. It's me who's singing that, plain and simple. We shouldn't confuse singers and performers with actors. Actors will say, “My character this, and my character that.” Like beating a dead horse. Who cares about the character? Just get up and act. You don't have to explain it to me."

"Hearing, one day, that a poor young girl of her acquaintance had been enticed to a fashionable house of ill…"

"The political strategy of divide, demonize and conquer has worked for centuries in the United States — sinc…"

"Lawrence is usually the first poet kids read in schools that they really like. It's a real turn-on for them."

"My total experience of school was mixed, with more darkness than light. Just as my image of society has bec…"

"It's great to be black in Hollywood. When a black actor does something, it seems new and different just by …"

"Henry Chatterly’s mouth became a fine, narrow line across the lower half of his face. His eyes glittered ha…"