SELF PORTRAIT: Throwing Armfuls of Air into the Air

When people fall in love, they burst into flames.

People die, I think, but your relationship with them doesn't. It continues and is ever-changing.

You have to see the miracles for there to be miracles.

Reality is crushing. The world is a wrong-sized shoe. How can anyone stand it?

I have to go, " I say, helpless.What makes you say the opposite of what every cell in your body wants you to say?

it's okay to be addicted to beauty, " Mom says, all dreamy. "Emerson said 'beauty is God's handwriting.

Mom has a massive sunflower for a soul so big there's hardly any room in her for organs.

The worst thing that could ever happen to Noah has happened. He's become normal.

And I see that his brown eye has a splash of green in it and the green one a splash of brown. Like Cezanne painted them. Impressionist eyes.

Nor that he's regarding my face with the same intensity I am his. We're two paintings staring at each other across a room.

Think positively.Always focus on the positive side of any situation.

There is love in everything, and when we really live and view life with an open heart (and live in our truth), the light illuminates the way.

Colors are vibrating light energies, each “color ray” produces a sound that affects matter.

Politicians should read science fiction, not westerns and detective stories.

Oh! that my soul had winged its flight, When first I saw the morning light, To worlds of liberty!

Choose the human race over the nuclear race. Bury the weapons and don't burn the people.

I was repeatedly told that there isn't an African American woman who can open a show on Broadway. I said, 'Well, how do we know? How do we know if we don't do it?' I said, 'I think you're wrong.'

What I want to achieve, what I have been striving and pining for these thirty years, is self-realization, that is, to see God face to face.

In the '90s, indie movies could get financing, because financers gave money straight to directors... Now it's a different system. Indie movies got co-opted by the studio system.

I'm going to a special place when I die, but I want to make sure my life is special while I'm here.