How still, How strangely still The water is today, It is not good For water To be so still that way. ~ "Sea Calm

Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken-winged bird that cannot fly.

I'm so tired of waiting, aren't you, for the world to become good and beautiful and kind?

The only way to get a thing done is to start to do it, then keep on doing it, and finally you'll finish it.

A world I dream where black or white, Whatever race you be, Will share the bounties of the Earth And every man is free.

When a man starts out to build a world, He starts first with himself

Let America be the dream the dreamers dreamed - Let it be that great strong land of love Where never kings connive nor tyrants scheme That any man be crushed by one above.

I tire so of hearing people say, Let things take their course. Tomorrow is another day. I do not need my freedom when I'm dead. I cannot live on tomorrow's bread.

I have discovered in life that there are ways of getting almost anywhere you want to go, if you really want to go.

Negroes - Sweet and docile, Meek, humble, and kind: Beware the day - They change their mind.

What happens to a dream deferred? Does it dry up like a raisin in the sun? ... Or does it explode?

For our generation walks as in Hades, without the divine.

An excellent mother knows she has the beautiful life, and she is a big time programmer.

It is a waste of money to help those who show no desire to help themselves.

[Giving welfare to poor people] is the equivalent of the government sending [fat people] a jumbo bag of Bugles in the mail twice a month.

Be more loving, compassionate and understanding with ourselves, with others, and with the planet, because we are all connected. We are one.

I was raised to feel that doing nothing was a sin. I had to learn to do nothing.

Only thing I am testing positive for is Pasta or Cheese.

Just imagine how suggestive things are.

Never, ever, take a "no" from someone who's not empowered to give you a "yes" in the first place.

You fill yourself with the sharp pain of love, rather than its fulfillment.