A little black girl yearns for the blue eyes of a little white girl, and the horror at the heart of her yearning is exceeded only by the evil of fulfillment

I have only to break into the tightness of a strawberry, and I see summer - its dust and lowering skies.

If you want to fly, you have to give up the things that weigh you down.

The function of freedom is to free someone else.

Don’t beg anybody for anything, especially love.

There is no such thing as race. None. There is just a human race - scientifically, anthropologically. Racism is a construct, a social construct... it has a social function, racism.

There is no time for despair, no place for self-pity, no need for silence, no room for fear. We speak, we write, we do language. That is how civilizations heal.

If there's a book you really want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it.

In times of dread, artists must never choose to remain silent.

All water has a perfect memory and is forever trying to get back to where it was.

Oppressive language does more than represent violence; it is violence; does more than represent the limits of knowledge; it limits knowledge.

God is so immense that if he were 'too visible, ' people would give forced compliance without expressing their heart. So God made it possible, in enormous love, for us to live as if he were not there.

If you are looking for true happiness, you have to change your level of consciousness and deepness of awareness.

The confidence felt, when dealing with genuine reputation, often outweighs the simplicity of price.

life is fair, truth is faith

Happiness, satisfaction, fulfillment, joy, love... All these things work the same way. The more you search for them, the less likely you are to find them.

Conscience and cowardice are really the same things, Basil. Conscience is the trade-name of the firm. That is all.

The one thing Cristiano Ronaldo has is pace, quick feet and a great eye for goal.

Ack!" I said. Fearless master of the witty dialogue, that's me.

Humans consist of body, mind and imagination. Our bodies are faulty, our minds untrustworthy, but our imagination has made us remarkable.

I never wanted to make it too easy for people to sum me up.