I'm searching, as we all are, for ways to feel good about myself. Certainly, looking in the mirror doesn't do it!

I know there is strength in the differences between us. I know there is comfort where we overlap.

God forbid you be an ugly girl, 'course too pretty is also your doom, 'cause everyone harbors a secret hatred for the prettiest girl in the room.

They can call me crazy if I fail, all the chance that I need, is one-in-a-million and they can call me brilliant if I succeed.

One of my rules is: Never TRY to do anything. Just do it.

Every time I say something they find hard to hear, they chalk it up to my anger, and never to their own fear.

Some people wear their heart up on their sleeve. I wear mine underneath my right pant leg, strapped to my boot.

We are wise women, we are giggling girls. We both carry a smile to show when we're pleased, we both carry a switchblade in our sleeves.

We are taught to view pain as an enemy, not a teacher. But pain is the right hand of growth and transformation. Pain is in the history of all human wisdom.

Patriarchy is like the elephant in the room that we don't talk about, but how could it not affect the planet radically when it's the superstructure of human society?

I wonder what you look like under your t-shirt. I wonder what you sound like when you're not wearing words. I wonder what we have when we're not pretending.

I freed a thousand slaves. I could have freed a thousand more if only they knew they were slaves.

Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that but the really great make you feel that you too can become great.

Whoever mourns the dead mourns himself.

When you believe in yourself and the people you surround yourself with, you will win something really big someday.

I wanted a bookstore because the book business is the business of life.

A lot of television tends to assume that audiences don't have the attention span or the IQ to follow a lot of stuff.

I played classical as a kid.

Not to sound too deep or weird, but I assume that the occasions once you pretty take pleasure in surfing are the occasions you are extremely kind of getting a single with nature.

Whites were the winners, blacks were the losers, we wrote the history books, and they didn't feature.

The Obama administration's plan is to have the Federal Reserve regulate banks that might pose a 'systemic risk' if they were to fail.