Shallow believers prefer a shallow God.

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.

Through the art of affirmative prayer the limitless resources of the Spirit are at my command. The power of the Infinite is at my disposal.

But what if Shakespeare― and Hamlet― were asking the wrong question? What if the real question is not whether to be, but how to be?

Collectors are happy people.

Inflation usually helps the economy at large, but not the 1% if wages rise. So the 1% says that it is terrible.

Hold the thought of all elements of the body working together in perfect rhythm.

The heart is its own Fate.

Never let hope elude you. That is life's biggest fumble.

We must realise that prophetic cry of black students: Black man you are on your own!

Public postures have the configuration of private derangement.

Let us not take for granted that life exists more fully in what is commonly thought big than in what is commonly thought small.