All my skinfolk ain't kinfolk.

If you are silent about your pain, they’ll kill you and say you enjoyed it.

Sometimes, I feel discriminated against, but it does not make me angry. It merely astonishes me. How can any deny themselves the pleasure of my company? It's beyond me.

I have the nerve to walk my own way, however hard, in my search for reality, rather than climb upon the rattling wagon of wishful illusions.

Love makes your soul crawl out from its hiding place.

There are years that ask questions and years that answer.

Research is formalized curiosity. It is poking and prying with a purpose.

I love myself when I am laughing. . . and then again when I am looking mean and impressive.

Bitterness is the coward's revenge on the world for having been hurt.

If you haven't got it, you can't show it. If you have got it, you can't hide it.

If writers were too wise, perhaps no books would get written at all. It might be better to ask yourself 'Why?”'afterwards than before There is no agony like bearing an untold story inside you.

It's not at all hard to understand a person it's only hard to listen without bias.

Sometimes chemistry does the trick, and other times, you have to forge that with the people.

I'm not in the camp that believes that Netflix is going to take over the world...technology makes it impossible to have a monopoly.

I think that a good song is catchy, and a great song is not catchy - but it has a deeper meaning.

Our inability to relate to one another is very, very, very important. When we don't have it, we get situations like Bosnia

When you have done your best for a flower, and it fails, you have some reason to be aggrieved.

The pastors and ministry leaders came away energized to have voter registration drives at their churches and motivated to encourage their congregations to "vote their values."

The day we were born, we were all God's children.

You're gonna lose some ball games and you're gonna win some ball games and that's about it.

We have a fair amount of racism.