Sleep without the fragrance of her hair next to him was impossible.

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.

To love or have loved, that is enough. Ask nothing further, There is no other pearl to be found in the dark folds of life.

If you like to live an abundant life, express joy and gratitude for what you have.

Show me a good loser, and I'll show you a loser.

And now it looks like I'm probably going to shoot a movie that I wrote. I got the money to do it, and I would star and all, because of being on Howard.

I do believe in forgiving and forgetting. There was a reason we were together. I just want to hold on to the good times.

Forgiveness is nothing more and nothing less than an act of self-healing-an act of self-empowermen t.

I suppose the reason I chose electrical engineering was because I had always been interested in electricity, involving myself in such projects as building radios from the time I was a child.

You should always respect what you are and your culture because if your art is going to mean anything, that is where it comes from.

Hey there.' I cleared my throat. 'How are you?' I'm engaged!' Incidentally, this is an unacceptable answer to that question.

Excellent instruction is less about what a teacher does and more about what students can do and know as a result of the lesson.