I wish that I could love someone so much that I would die from it.

There's something to be said about a slightly plump person—you have just enough of too much.

The inevitable is no less a shock just because it is inevitable.

Express everything you like. No word can hurt you. None. No idea can hurt you. Not being able to express an idea or word will hurt you more. Like a bullet.

I was given a dictionary when I was seven, and I read it because I had nothing else to read. I read it the way you read a book.

People don't make changes because things are wonderful.

I would be lost without the feeling of antagonism that people have towards me. I write out of defiance.

People only say I’m angry because I’m black and I’m a woman.

A great piece of literature encompasses all that is and all that will be.

...yet a memory cannot be trusted, for so much of the experience of the past is determined by the experience of the present.

I'm so used to being misunderstood.

Enriched vocabularies someone had (and used) are produced by a boundless wondrous mind. Sometime with a non mediocre experience also.

Do little but be consistent.

Goals allow you to control the direction of change in your favor.

Openness, as currently conceived, is a way of making surrender to whatever is most powerful, or worship of vulgar success, look principled.

When it comes to casual clothing, my enthusiasm for clothes starts to waver.

The man who knows how will always be the student, but the man who knows why will continue to be the instructor.

Every bad feeling is potential energy toward a more right way of being if you give it space to move toward its rightness

We have to make their livelihoods viable, get them the proper prices for their produce, try and make them stay rather than sell their property and leave again.

While the government can tell you that I am an innocent man, the government's letter cannot give me back my good name or my reputation.

Sometimes you just have to be by yourself, you need a little space and time.