The pinpoint flame of anger and grief becomes a hot needle, then a hot knife.It melts the frost that binds her lips.It melts the sea in her eyesss.(from uncorrected galley)

We never really know what might be beside us or ahead, but most days we walk as if we do.

Sometimes sense hides behind walls. You must find a window and stick your head right in before you can see it.

You don't drown because you can't breathe. You drown because you try to breathe what is not breathable.

On one of the right-side-up pages show wrote, with some difficulty, Know what roots know: there is only one tree.

And I love everything on this changing, burning earth, but I am most grateful to you.

Seeing is 'making, ' whether you see with your mind or your true self. Try to see with your self, your self and your beast together, and not your busy, frightened mind.

We never really know what might me beside us or ahead, but most days we walk as if we do

The bird music sank into her, like a song you used to know but forgot long ago. You hear a piano play it some day, and for a minute you feel a happy pain, but you don't know why. Bird felt like that.

She was only half Bird now, and the other half song. She liked it that way.

When you see a good person, think of becoming like her/him. When you see someone not so good, reflect on your own weak points.

Please don't allow anyone to make you feel less than what you are.

The black power movement was not a separation from the civil rights movement, but a continuation of this whole process of democratization.

Tomorrow awaits to become yesterday. Remnant shall only be a smile, a frown or a tear! Let's store what we may!

You can calculate the worth of a man by the number of his enemies, and the importance of a work of art by the harm that is spoken of it.

The mind's only perfect vassal.

It's gonna be one of the great achievements of this administration.

Today I have a choice. I can resist reality and suffer pain or peacefully accept what I cannot change.

The ocean is a supreme metaphor for change. I expect the unexpected but am never fully prepared.

The students wanted to speak to the government, and the police answered with bullets.