Let heartbreak be alternative to coffe break, five midmorning minutes devoted to emotion.

Race is a layer of being, but not a culmination.

Anger becomes limiting, restricting. You can't see through it. While anger is there, look at that, too. But after a while, you have to look at something else.

One must always be aware, to notice even though the cost of noticing is to become responsible.

The writer in me can look as far as an African-American woman and stop. Often that writer looks through the African-American woman. Race is a layer of being, but not a culmination.

the truth is not supposed to free you from the truth, just from everything else

One must always be aware, to notice—even though the cost of noticing is to become responsible.

The shape of your dreams will not hold if you believe that disbelief is the mending glue. You will only turn back to see the pieces of your dreams if you have the impossibility mindset.

My body is not designed to run. My body was designed to sit in an expensive care and drive.

You hear about the struggles with substances and all that, but [Phil Wood] was a really a great guy. This was a great man.

Men are taught to apologise for their weaknesses, women for their strengths.

The ideas of right and wrong change with the experience of the race, and this change is wrought by the gradual ascertaining of consequences - of results.

Even before the concentration camps, I felt it was my duty to my ancestors to preserve a world that might cease to exist.

Consciousness does not just passively reflect the objective material world; it plays an active role in creating reality itself.

Through the ages all great men have taught truth and happiness can't be bought.

The oceans deserve our respect and care, but you have to know something before you can care about it.

We get to choose who we love, and that includes God, and he loves us back.