Karibu, dada wangu. Hapa, wewe ni nyumbani. Welcome, my sister. Here, you are home. Home. And to this home, may you always return.

Failure has a hacksaw to my anklesand right now there is nothingI want more than to learnhow to walk on my hands.

I am a poem in progresswith no clear beginning or endingjust a middleuntended, unintended, unfinished, hanging therelike the breath before a question

Perhaps one did not want to be loved so much as to be understood.

Amazing grace

Everyone has a past, but that's just it--it's in the past. You can learn from it, but you can't change it.

It's not that we poor men are so powerful to be able to banish the devil. It's that God gives us the power.

Tell me thy company, and I'll tell thee what thou art.

You can’t second-guess baseballyou can’t second-guess yourself.

The most ethical way to deal with an unethical situation would be to simply say: 'We did something wrong.' But nobody in a family like mine would ever respond like this.

He shines in the second rank, who is eclipsed in the first.

Pride is the ground in which all the other sins grow, and the parent from which all the other sins come.

The dominant purpose of the First Amendment was to prohibit the widespread practice of government suppression of embarrassing information.