Make a difference about something other than yourselves.

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.

Don't do this to us." He warned, his voice hoarse with angry desperation as he realize he was losing her. "You're letting eleven years of mistrust color everything you've discovered I've done".

Real love should draw no blood from the loved and buckets from the lover.

Every one is as God made him and oftentimes a good deal worse.

War can only be abolished through war, and in order to get rid of the gun it is necessary to take up the gun.

Politeness, n: The most acceptable hypocrisy.

The way to use life is to do nothing through acting, The way to use life is to do everything through being.

This is who I am. Not everybody has to like it.

Church was a requirement, there was no choice in the matter, so was vacation bible school. Gospel has been in me since I was a kid.

I'm not in a party. I am a party.

The driving force for the Arabs is hatred of Israel. Hatred of the Jewish people.