In my opinion and experience, imperialists of all nations and races will tell us anything to keep us fighting. For them.

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.

You are amazing.

An actor always goes to the safe side.

May He guide us now. And may God continue to bless the United States of America.

I yield to your wishes. It is the privilege of the women whom we love more than they love us to make the men who love them ignore the ordinary rules of common-sense.

My happy weight changes. Sometimes I eat more; sometimes I play more. I'll be different sizes all the time.

I really don't want to be boring, and so many books are so boring!

I drink too much. The last time I gave a urine sample it had an olive in it.

Adulterers, take warning, never admit.

You're an obnoxious canker-blossom. Go ooze somewhere else.