Liberation means you don't have to be silenced.

I have only to break into the tightness of a strawberry, and I see summer - its dust and lowering skies.

If you want to fly, you have to give up the things that weigh you down.

The function of freedom is to free someone else.

Don’t beg anybody for anything, especially love.

There is no such thing as race. None. There is just a human race - scientifically, anthropologically. Racism is a construct, a social construct... it has a social function, racism.

There is no time for despair, no place for self-pity, no need for silence, no room for fear. We speak, we write, we do language. That is how civilizations heal.

If there's a book you really want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it.

In times of dread, artists must never choose to remain silent.

All water has a perfect memory and is forever trying to get back to where it was.

Oppressive language does more than represent violence; it is violence; does more than represent the limits of knowledge; it limits knowledge.

They leave to test the waters but fail to realize the waters are full of rapids.

However little we may be, if we are the Lord's, we may rejoice that we are preserved in Christ Jesus.

It's not a very big thing to say, 'I made a mistake' on the war, and typical of Hillary Clinton that she can't.

Every human being is the author of his own health or disease.

The heavens, with their everlasting faithfulness, look down on no sadder contradiction than the sluggard and the slattern in their prayers.

I'm very interested in the way people interact emotionally.

Try to love someone who you want to hate, because they are just like you, somewhere inside, in a way you may never expect, in a way that resounds so deeply within you that you cannot believe it.

I'm not a great science fiction fan myself. I probably feel that way about Westerns. Like I used to play Cowboys and Indians, they can act out Will and the Robot.

I have only ever read one book in my life, and that is White Fang. It's so frightfully good I've never bothered to read another.

Solitude with God repairs the damage done by the fret and noise and clamour of the world.