I'm not telling anyone, 'Quit your job and be homeless to go for your dream.'

Love is an energy. You can feed it to people, and they in turn feed it to others, and eventually it comes back.

It's not enough to do the tasks that are expected or required of us. We have to give more, do more, be more.

This world is vast enough to handle anything you dare to dream.

You can't be free if the cost of being you is too high.

I think the number one safe haven where people put their money is to invest in yourself first.

All work and no play make any forensic pathologist a dull boy.

All of us have to figure out our own passion, our own journey. Follow your heart.

The best way to protect young black, brown, men of color, women of color, is to actually stop profiling, stop the prejudice, and stop the judgment first.

I believe that love expands. As you give love out, it's received and reciprocated and it grows. That's the beauty of it.

There will always be crazy things that happen in our lives, but love is the central connector. If we commit to love and partnership, the other stuff doesnt matter.

People wears a mask of lie so they look attractive, so be careful

My poems tend to be more celebratory and lyrical, and the novels so far pretty dark. Poetry doesn't seem to me to be an appropriate tool for exploring that.

We've poisoned our planet to a desperate degree. We have no idea of how severe the toxification is.

I'm a Christian and a supporter of marriage equality under the law.

People always ask 'Why is Bubba different?' They're just trying to figure it out.

A sentence boiled in her, but she could not yet see it clearly.

I am so proud to be the Baltimore Ravens' first Hall of Fame inductee.

I definitely prefer to be in a band. There's too many solo people, and bands are suffering. There's too many great bands that have split up because somebody's got an ego, and then he goes solo.

I want a dress the color of suffering

It is a tough choice between ending up in the cold or ending up in a fiery blast.