Someone is always at my elbow reminding me that I am the granddaughter of slaves. It fails to register depression with me.

If you are silent about your pain, they’ll kill you and say you enjoyed it.

Sometimes, I feel discriminated against, but it does not make me angry. It merely astonishes me. How can any deny themselves the pleasure of my company? It's beyond me.

I have the nerve to walk my own way, however hard, in my search for reality, rather than climb upon the rattling wagon of wishful illusions.

Love makes your soul crawl out from its hiding place.

All my skinfolk ain't kinfolk.

There are years that ask questions and years that answer.

Research is formalized curiosity. It is poking and prying with a purpose.

I love myself when I am laughing. . . and then again when I am looking mean and impressive.

Bitterness is the coward's revenge on the world for having been hurt.

If you haven't got it, you can't show it. If you have got it, you can't hide it.

Something amazing happens when you're in love and don't give a damn about what day it is anymore.

Never cry because you have mountains of problem in your hands to solve. Always smile because each problems will someday resolve.

Beauty lies in the eye.

Nothing has the power to remind you how alone you are like walking through a conglomeration of empty skyscrapers.

My favorite meal is turkey and mashed potatoes. I love Thanksgiving, it's just my favorite. I can have Thanksgiving all year round.

Drilling in ANWR fails to lower energy prices today and sets no long term energy strategy for tomorrow.

The idea that any performer type is owed anything is a joke to me.

Do you know what I feel about you, Devin? About us?...Dazzled, you dazzle me. You make me feel things, and want things I never knew I could have. -Cassie

They are "sexcellent". That is a pun for you, you will find lots of puns on the internet! Also: blonde jokes.

In all our Yogas this renunciation is necessary. This is the stepping-stone and the real centre and the real heart of all spiritual culture - renunciation. This is religion - renunciation.