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

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.

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

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.

Love isn't just what you feel for someone when you look at them. It's how they make you feel about yourself when they look back at you.

Your tenderness has pervaded into the very pore of my being. Last night I inhaled the fragrance of the moon!

The heat of autumn is different from the heat of summer. One ripens apples, the other turns them to c

I am fully aware of the critical moments we face as a country.

Life is a marshmallow, easy to chew but hard to swallow.

To be completely featured as human. First of all, man must live with the truth.

Let's build bridges, not walls.

Beauty is such a fleeting blossom, how can wisdom rely upon its momentary delight?

There are some things to die for but none to kill for.

Everybody’s at war with different things…I’m at war with my own heart sometimes.