I think America has always been polarized... It's a racist country and it has always been.

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.

Beware of corporate government cops.

I heard the breeze whisper your name to the trees. And the flowers giggled smiling at the leaves. I and my loneliness keep talking about you.

Not the “be yourself” line. I loathe that line. As if Myself and Tic have met before and gotten along, so all I have to do is make sure Myself is there this time. So illogical.

Imitation, if noble and general, insures the best hope of originality.

Commercials and sometimes other guests - it's the down side of TV. Other people - it's the downside of life in general.

Publicity gets more than a little tiring. You want it, you need it, you crave it, and you're scared as hell when it stops.

Life is like an elevator, a lot of ups and downs. People pushing your buttons and getting jerked around.

In the States, it takes you a lifetime just to get from Chicago's South Side to the West Side.

I like the idea of doing things that only exist for as long as they exist, which are not archives, which are not sold or prepared even.

Joshua didn't say choose you next year whom you will serve; he spoke of "this day," while there is still daylight and before the darkness becomes more and more normal.