The animals of the world exist for their own reasons. They were not made for humans any more than black people were made for white, or women created for men.

I have fallen in love with the imagination. And if you fall in love with the imagination, you understand that it is a free spirit. It will go anywhere, and it can do anything.

Womanist is to feminist as purple is to lavender.

The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don't have any.

No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow.

Look closely at the present you are constructing: it should look like the future you are dreaming.

Whenever you are creating beauty around you, you are restoring your own soul.

I don’t need a certain number of friends, just a number of friends I can be certain of.

Every small positive change we make in ourselves repays us in confidence in the future.

In nature, nothing is perfect and everything is perfect. Trees can be contorted, bent in weird ways, and they're still beautiful.

'Thank you' is the best prayer that anyone could say. I say that one a lot. Thank you expresses extreme gratitude, humility, understanding.

It is our wounds that create in us a desire to reach for miracles. The fulfillment of such miracles depends on whether we let our wounds pull us down or lift us up towards our dreams.

If you love a bird don't hold it too tightly or you'll soon be nursing a broken heart.

I will kick you in the nuts and you will smile and like it.

I try not to fake anything.

In order to solve problems, information has to be shared; and not only information, but doubts, fears and questions.

Some men ease themselves like setting hens into the nest of death.

I don't like magic - but I have been known to make guys disappear.

I am by nature a dealer in words, and words are the most powerful drug known to humanity.

I don't like it when people don't act on their words.

There's life after acting.