I'm pore, I'm black, I may be ugly and can't cook, a voice say to everything listening. But I'm here.

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.

She was home, the passage walls, memorabilia of Ben's life, past and present, welcomed her like a doting grandmother.

A painting is worth a thousand confused art-gallery visitors.

Never doubt who you are!

It is an empty room, that afterwards, a soledad, and it sits there at the center of a person's life and waits to be filled.

A good president needs a big comfort zone. He should be able to treat enemies as opportunities, appear authentic in joy and grief, stay cool under the hot lights.

Neo-Liberalism promised us a Global Village and gave us a Potemkin Village.

Religion is a good invention in times of stress.

We want to evolve; like the Stones.

It's hubris to think that the way we see things is everything there is.

I grew up on a farm in Pennsylvania, where my parents raised German shepherds - we had about 30 dogs at any given time.