I've never been a calm, midrange type person.

You don't love me. If you really knew me, you wouldn't love me. You love who you think I am. And don't pretend that you know me. Because I don't even know myself.

I know I was born and I know that I'll die... The in between is mine. I Am Mine

It's saying, just stop, and be together. Don't talk now, just breathe and feel each other's presence.

Music's at its best when it has a purpose.

I knew all the rules but the rules did not know me.

The smallest oceans still make big big waves.

Music saved me; I mean, my upbringing was like a hurricane, and music was the tree I held onto.

It's a mystery to me; We have a greed, with which we have agreed. You think you have to want more than you need. Until you have it all, you won't be free.

The love received is the love that is saved.

I've got my indignation but I'm pure in all my thoughts.

I am a butterfly poetbirthed from painflying with the freedomof my verses.

The belief that others think they are right doesn't mean that they are.

Eleanor, " Daniel said. "Miss Fitt! Wake up!"I fluttered my eyelids open. "I'm not a misfit anymore, " I rasped. "I thought I told you that.

Big business is willing to destroy the planet for short-term profits

Ain't it just like the night to play tricks when you're tryin' to be so quiet?

I do consider myself part of black history.

Photography is a language more universal than words.

I think we can work through a lot of political and international problems, but what really frightens me is what's happening environmentally.

The sleep of a laboring man is sweet.

Time's fatal wings do ever forward fly; To every day we live, a day we die.