How can you be in love with someone for forever and not be willing to take a chance when it finally hits you in the face like a linebacker?

Love hurts worse than getting slammed by a 250-pound linebacker.

When unrequited love is the most expensive thing on the menu, sometimes you settle for the daily special.

Why were you watching me change?" I explain. "Uh, 'cause I'm a guy?" He flips the pillow and slaps it, fluffing it. Then he rolls over and closes his eyes again.

You know, there's no more dangerous creature on Earth than the teenage girl.

For a true artist, difficulties become opportunities and clouds become solid present.

I don't admire the person who hides from the world and claims enlightenment. To be purified you have to be tested and there is no better test of strength than dealing with other people.

Gift giving is part of the culture no matter where you are and no matter how long you stay.

If you hate others in the name of God, you should be looking within to see where it stopped being about God and where it started being about YOU.

Most of the more celebrated names among African-American authors, poets, and artists are known to the world because of their association with specific cultural arts movements.

Do not allow the enemy of your soul to rob you of that unique quality God has breathed into you.

Our government has no integrity!

All is well, practice kindness, heaven is nigh.

In clothes clean and fresh there is a kind of youth with which age should surround itself.

I think everybody in this world should be loved.