Parents aren't the people you come from. They're the people you want to be, when you grow up.

When you love someone, you say their name different. Like it's safe inside your mouth.

I always hated when my scars started to fade, because as long as I could still see them, I knew why I was hurting.

Things that look impossible suddenly seem a lot better, once you get God on board.

Although you hadn't asked why, it had less to do with you not noticing than with you not wanting to hear the answer.

People ask all the time how I'm doing, but the truth is, they don't really want to know.

All any of us wanted, really, was to know that we counted. That someone else's life would not have been as rich without us here.

It never failed to amaze me how the most ordinary day could be catapulted into the extraordinary in the blink of an eye.

Maybe I was naïve to think that silence was implicit complacence, instead of a festering question. Maybe I was silly to believe that friends owed each other anything.

Doing the right thing for someone else occasionally means doing something that feels wrong to you.

What you didn't tell someone was just as debilitating as what you did.

Embrace all people with love.

I wish for sorrow to be a full stop and happiness to be a comma in my life.

The power of lack can trigger so many actions and things! We do because we lack something! We act because we need something!

Perhaps once one realised how deeply one could bond with a creature as foreign as a dragon, all forms of human love seemed more acceptable.

It's really hard to know why certain artists become famous and others don't.

You have to treat yourself every once in a while, get to the fun stuff!

Make thy books thy companions. Let thy cases and shelves be thy pleasure grounds and gardens.

22 million African-Americans - that's what we are - Africans who are in America.