But life at its best is a creative synthesis of opposites in fruitful harmony.

If you can't fly then run, if you can't run then walk, if you can't walk then crawl, but whatever you do you have to keep moving forward.

Forgiveness is not an occasional act, it is a constant attitude.

The time is always right to do what is right.

I have decided to stick with love. Hate is too great a burden to bear.

The time is always right to do the right thing.

You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.

The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.

Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.

A man dies when he refuses to stand up for that which is right. A man dies when he refuses to stand up for justice. A man dies when he refuses to take a stand for that which is true.

It's not the violence of the few that scares me, it's the silence of the many

If someone is really close with you, your getting upset or them getting upset is okay, and they don’t change because of it. It’s just part of the relationship. It happens. You deal with it.

I don't understand women at all. Like how a women can pour boiling hot wax onto their upper thigh, then rip the hair out by the root... and still be afraid of a spider.

The light that filled my house was deep and livid, half magnolia, half rainwater. Things sat in it, dark and very still.

Nothing feels sexier than wearing the beautiful truth.

Autobiography is probably the most respectable form of lying.

It would be much easier to just make black, brown and beige clothes. But I do not see the world in black and white and beige. I find colors incredibly important.

Planning is really the hallmark of any large military formation, and it's typically a weakness in new formations and new armies.

I look at racism as one of the social demons. And, in its worst, it's violent and it's a systemic commitment to oppression.

We can distance ourselves from the reality of what we did through storytelling.

Obstacles cannot bend me. Every obstacle yields to effort.