It is brave to be involved

Do not desire to fit in. Desire to oblige yourselves to lead.

We don't ask a flower any special reason for its existence. We just look at it and are able to accept it as being something different from ourselves.

I believe we should all know each other, we human carriers of so many pleasurable differences. To not know is to doubt, to shrink from, sidestep or destroy.

Reading is important - read between the lines. Don't swallow everything.

We are each other's harvest; we are each other's business; we are each other's magnitude and bond.

Don't let anyone call you a minority if you're black or Hispanic or belong to some other ethnic group. You're not less than anybody else.

I think there are things for all of us to do as long as we're here and we're healthy.

Books are meat and medicine and flame and flight and flower steel, stitch, cloud and clout, and drumbeats on the air.

Truth-tellers are not always palatable. There is a preference for candy bars.

Exhaust the little moment. Soon it dies. And be it gash or gold it will not come again in this identical guise.

Empowering women isn't for women, but for the world.

Is he dead?" he inquired. "He looks dead." "No," snapped Maryse. "He's not dead." "Have you checked? I could kick him if you want.

Because he had no place he could stay in without getting tired of it and because there was nowhere to go but everywhere, keep rolling under the stars.

I try to be as realistic as possible.

I live between Jamaica and Paris.

Only a certain breed of actor should ever even try to work for Orson Welles. I'm glad I'm one of that breed.

Men are prisoners of their genitalia and women are the keepers of the keys to paradise.

Self-recognition, the self-contemplation of spirit is the primary movement out of which all creativeness proceeds.

There's forgiveness if you ask forgiveness, you truly repent, and you do make an honest effort not to do that anymore.

The French are not normally a Nordic Skiing Nation.