Every blade of grass has its Angel that bends over it and whispers, "Grow, grow." - The Talmud

Depression is anger turned inward.

But you cant get all hung up on details when you are trying to survive.

Listen baby, Muver love you. Muver not dumb. Listen baby: ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ. Thas the alphabet. Twenty- six letters in all. Them letters make up words. Them words everything.

I say I drownin' in river. She don't look me like I'm crazy but say, If you just sit there the river gonna rise up drown you! Writing could be the boat carry you to the other side. (97)

How that is so I don't know. How Mama and Daddy know me sixteen years and hate me, how a stranger meet me and love me. (131)

I changed the past by walking back into it.

I know you are, but you gotta push

I need no alibi, I did steal your heart.

Just us fancy wise-men trying to take on the world.

Unfortunately, our minds are our greatest assets, and our biggest flaws.

If a child is loved, he feels worthy of love in the future

Every flower is a love of a dancing sun, ready to kindle your heart.

A brief life burns brightly.

None of us, in our culture of comfort, know how to prepare ourselves for dying, but that's what we should do every day. Every single day, we die a thousand deaths.

In order to get beyond racism, we must first take account of race. There is no other way. And in order to treat some persons equally, we must treat them differently.

Keep working hard and you can get anything that you want. If God gave you the talent, you should go for it. But don't think it's going to be easy. It's hard!

I think more women should be involved in politics for the good of the human race.

The thing that I should wish to obtain from money would be leisure with security.

I don't have any kids. Well, at least none I know about.

If Blake said that, said Father Brian, he never lived in Dublin.