But I don't know how to fight. All I know how to do is stay alive.

I have fallen in love with the imagination. And if you fall in love with the imagination, you understand that it is a free spirit. It will go anywhere, and it can do anything.

Womanist is to feminist as purple is to lavender.

The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don't have any.

No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow.

Look closely at the present you are constructing: it should look like the future you are dreaming.

Whenever you are creating beauty around you, you are restoring your own soul.

I don’t need a certain number of friends, just a number of friends I can be certain of.

Every small positive change we make in ourselves repays us in confidence in the future.

In nature, nothing is perfect and everything is perfect. Trees can be contorted, bent in weird ways, and they're still beautiful.

'Thank you' is the best prayer that anyone could say. I say that one a lot. Thank you expresses extreme gratitude, humility, understanding.

love is not boastful. But hate? Apparently hate has a big mouth.

With each embrace, I poured my soul into his, till his and mine were the same.

If the truth conflicts with my beliefs, I change my beliefs.

When you visit Nirvana, there is neither existence nor nonexistence. Your baggage never arrives because there is no one there to claim it.

Dead folks can't hurt you none. It's the ones that are alive, you have to watch out for.

John say's it's James who started first, James tells the story in reverse. I drag my belt from off me waist, you should have heard dem screaming round de place.

You can change things, you can make things better.

The female always surpasses the male with stillness. In her stillness she is yielding.

I ask everyone with political responsibility to remember two things: human dignity and the common good.

If you think good design is expensive, you should look at the cost of bad design.