Find yourself a cup of tea; the teapot is behind you. Now tell me about hundreds of things. Saki Tea to the English is really a picnic indoors.

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.

What would our hospitality look like if we believed that Jesus’s death on the cross was the measure of God’s compassion for someone?

Ant swarming CityCity full of dreamsWhere in broad day the specter tugs your sleeve

Too many professional development initiatives are done to teachers - not for, with or by them.

I just want to keep doing what I feel.

The white audiences thought I was white, my features being what they are, and at every performance I'd have to take off my gloves to prove I was a spade.

And for at least that moment, I wouldn't have traded the hundreds of books I've read for the few I know almost by heart.

There is no room in baseball for discrimination. It is our national pastime and a game for all.

The California constitution provides that our judges are elected, not appointed. They are serving at the pleasure of the people and they are accountable to the people.

Maybe when I'm sixty-five I'll talk about my literary life.

I don't consider devotion to the past a form of snobbery. Just one of the more disastrous forms of unrequited love.