Love is going to replace life and from then on it's all smooth sailing. Love will replace life.

Surviving and believing in tomorrow is just a habit I can't break.

Racism is a virus. And since nobody's really looking too hard for a cure it reproduces itself over and over again.

To my father, who told me the stories that matter. To my mother, who taught me to remember them.

I quickly learned that motherhood was a high wire act sometimes performed without a net.

Novelists have to love humanity to write anything worthwhile. Poets have to love themselves.

I am a stranger to half measures.

It was important, I know, for my father as a product of his times not to be vulnerable, so he chose, and I can't say that I blame him, to live his life rather than create it.

He's more myself than I am. Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same.

Remember, Pia, " he whispers. "Perfect is as perfect does.

I don't settle in any other area of my life when it comes to excellence, so why should I lower my standards when it comes to boys?

The greatest fear in life is not of death, but unsolicited change.

So if you have a grandma Thank the Good Lord up above And give Grandmama hugs and kisses For grandmothers are to love.

The Communist regime didn't consider this to be a shining moment in history and assigned no heroism to it. They classified it as merely an accident.

The greatest honor history can bestow is that of peacemaker.

The parts of graffiti I like are really antagonizing still - it's not something that a museum would really embrace.

One often makes music to supplement one's world.

Many wear the robes, but few walk the Way." The Lama in Kim