I wrote my first report about Madam Walker when I was a senior in high school in 1970.
Don't sit around and wait for the opportunities to come. You have to get up and make those opportunities come.
There are five great ages of man - five moments when you need to reevaluate everything, clear out the cupboard and the wardrobe, and most importantly, your head. They are 13, 20, 30, 40 and 60. All men need to know this.
Money has to be an explosion of excitement and opportunity, yet we already secretly know that it doesn't do what it promises. Nothing has ever given us as much pleasure as our pocket money when we were 12, or our first wage at the end of that first exhausting week, paid in folded cash.
Gifts are an important and necessary part of our collective lives. We need to give and we need to allow others to give.
I was proud my father spoke Arabic fluently - his father sent him to learn Arabic from a sheikh - and we had Arab friends. His task of understanding the Arabs - not only politics but poetry - was very important; he took it as a vocation.
I think artists are really the root of a tree. They can search for truth or reality in their own way, and the gallery can support them - the outside part of the tree, where it is more about reaching the outside world, connecting with the outside world. That is the role of the gallery, no? Why does the artist have to do that?
Major sports are major parts of society. It's not anomalous to have people who love sports come from other parts of that society.
Knowing what you can not do is more important than knowing what you can do. In fact, that's good taste.
We expanded primarily for our people - if you don't offer more opportunities, you don't keep good people.
