Quotes About Reflection

There is no satisfaction to be derived from having had many of our arguments borne out by events.

If anything is life-changing, being the descendant of a slave is.

I wouldn't describe myself as a master of anything.

That's what art is for me. It helps you maintain hope by giving you the ability to either create outside your reality, or to describe your reality.

I like to describe my stuff as observational comedy.

I'm kind of a simple guy. The best way you can describe it is, I'm the same person I was when I was a kid. Everyone's like, 'Of course you are,' but I'm like, 'No, seriously.' I liked 'ThunderCats' when I was a kid; I call myself Thundercat now.

Mixtapes are very personal, and they describe who you are better than an album sometimes.

Novels describe what it means to be alive at a given moment.

I'm really bad at describing my own life.

Obviously, you're a better writer at 31 then you are at 19. Hopefully, you're also a better human being and better at describing reality.

There is such a peace out in the middle of the desert. There's nothing like it.

On the one hand, I want to go off and live in the desert with my dog and sculpt things out of adobe.

I always thought that people who live in the desert are a little crazy. It could be that the desert attracts that kind of person, or that after living there, you become that. It doesn't make much difference. But now I've done my 40 years in the desert.

If you can't laugh at yourself, you don't deserve to laugh at anybody else.

Once you take a life, that's it. I don't even deserve to be here.

I ask myself if I deserve what I have. What I have today is way more than I ever bargained for.

I sent people to the penitentiary as fast as I could, never thinking about whether they deserved it.

If I got a beating for something, I usually deserved it.

I have not been true to my values and the behavior my family deserves.

I design for myself and the first question I ask is, 'Would I wear it?'

I don't expect people to forget my brash words or deeds. But I ask that they try to remember the actions that I took that were designed to help them.

I didn't grow up thinking, 'Oh, I'm going to be a designer.'

I was an absolutely untalented designer.

When a designer creates, he looks at the world around him.