Pretend that this is a time of miracles and we believe in them.

All anyone can hope for is just a tiny bit of love, like a drop in a cup if you can get it, or a waterfall, a flood, if you can get that too.

Love is like the rain. It comes in a drizzle sometimes. Then it starts pouring and if you're not careful it will drown you.

Create dangerously, for people who read dangerously. ... Writing, knowing in part that no matter how trivial your words may seem, someday, somewhere, someone may risk his or her life to read them.

There is a frustration too, that at moments when there's not a coup, when there are not people in the streets, that the country disappears from people's consciousness.

When you write ,it's like braiding your hair. Taking a handful of coarse unruly strands and attempting to bring then unity.

It's not easy to start over in a new place,' he said. 'Exile is not for everyone. Someone has to stay behind, to receive the letters and greet family members when they come back.

People are just too hopeful, and sometimes hope is the biggest weapon of all to use against us. People will believe anything.

I think Haiti is a place that suffers so much from neglect that people only want to hear about it when it’s at its extreme. And that’s what they end up knowing about it.

Toni Cade Bambara said: “Writing is the way I participate in the struggle.”

Misery won't touch you gentle. It always leaves its thumbprints on you; sometimes it leaves them for others to see, sometimes for nobody but you to know of.

For how can a tyrant rule the free and the proud, but for a tyranny in their own freedom and a shame in their own pride?

Very softly as he nuzzled her, his mouth near her ear, he began to sing: "I'm so happy with you, la, la...

I haven't had a drink in twelve days and I've gotta say, I'm pretty shocked at how boring people are.

Men are valued, not for what they are, but for what they seem to be.

History proves nothing because it contains everything.

This has ever been the fate of energy in security; it takes to art and to eroticism, and then comes languor and decay.

I went out there to play my game for the fun of it and never based my career around records.

I've been short all my life. And if anyone wonders what my dying wish will be, they can stop wondering. That will be easy. I'll just tell them, 'I'll have a short bier.'

One day you will come to Montauk and see your dad playing the piano And see your other dad wearing glasses Hope that you will want to stay for a while Don't worry I know you'll have to go

Human life may be regarded as a succession of frontispieces. The way to be satisfied is never to look back.