Literature, it seems to me, is wisdom.

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.

Here is one of the worst things about having someone you love die: It happens again every single morning.

Heavenly blessings are life, grace, hope, faith, love, inner peace, nature, family, friends….!

Finding a soulmate is an easy adventure, but the difficult part admist the game is finding your kind of person.

It is difficult to want to tell a grave that it is not immortal. It's so obvious at that point.

In my relativity theory I set up a clock at every point in space, but in reality I find it difficult to provide even one clock in my room.

I think it's my responsibility, to speak up when something threatens our very future.

I've never been unemployed. I've never been very fully employed either.

I have always, or for the most part, identified myself as a biracial person.

The measure of our success will be the condition on which we leave the world for the next generation.

The market system rewards me outlandishly for what I do, but that doesn't mean I'm any more deserving of a good life than a teacher or a doctor or someone who fights in Afghanistan.