Delight, Delight, Delight...in our youth.

You don't love me. If you really knew me, you wouldn't love me. You love who you think I am. And don't pretend that you know me. Because I don't even know myself.

I know I was born and I know that I'll die... The in between is mine. I Am Mine

It's saying, just stop, and be together. Don't talk now, just breathe and feel each other's presence.

Music's at its best when it has a purpose.

I knew all the rules but the rules did not know me.

The smallest oceans still make big big waves.

Music saved me; I mean, my upbringing was like a hurricane, and music was the tree I held onto.

It's a mystery to me; We have a greed, with which we have agreed. You think you have to want more than you need. Until you have it all, you won't be free.

The love received is the love that is saved.

I've got my indignation but I'm pure in all my thoughts.

the truth she gathered, enlarging her strength, enlarged likewise the composure that comes of strength.

If I was a waitress, I was too tired at the end of the day when I came home to try to write.

The most valuable thing the Psalms do for me is to express the same delight in God which made David dance.

When two people are at one in their inmost hearts, they shatter even the strength of iron or bronze.

I didn't leave Africa, I left Nigeria, and for political reasons. But ... I've never, never left Africa, and I certainly never left what it means to be Ibo. That is something you carry with you.

I know I can handle dramatic roles, but I don't think I should have to play a young mother on crack to prove it.

Thirst of power and of riches now bear sway, The passion and infirmity of age.

Love could never bloom in a concrete block room.

I look upon indolence as a sort of suicide; for the man is effectually destroyed, though the appetites of the brute may survive.

I don't think of myself as being tied.