The reader who is illuminated is, in a real sense, the poem.

If I were a food, I'd be a Chili because you know.. I'm hot.

In differentiated classrooms, teachers begin where students are, not the front of a curriculum guide.

In my first video diary I explained my love for women who have a taste in carrots. Since then, I have received plenty of carrots. Now I also have a keen interest in women who like Lamborghinis.

Live life for the moment, because everything else is uncertain.

And I'd marry you, Harry. Because it rhymes.

I secretly want to be a zebra. That is why I always wear stripes.

Always be nice to people. Whatever how bad they are to you. To show them you are not like them.

Fans always tell me I'm beautiful, but no one will ever be as beautiful as them

Even if there's a tiny tiny chance, isn't that worth going for it?

If you want to do something, Go for it you've got nothing to loose.

Sometimes I scare myself at how easily I slip inside my mind and live vicariously through these characters.

A man is accepted into a church for what he believes and he is turned out for what he knows.

I'm sorry it's not Mark - it could've been. It should've been. It might've meant something. Maybe not much, but certainly more.

Find me the perfect human being and I'll show you Jesus Christ.

Words create. Know what you want to create before you speak

I wanted to show the history and strength of all kinds of black women. Working women, country women, urban women, great women in the history of the United States.

I heard that all the time. ‘He makes it look too easy, he doesn’t run hard.’ It was always a slight on me.

A tourist is an ugly human being.

Where I would usually backspace, I stop and say, "You know what? This is important, that I say how I feel and don't sugarcoat it, and don't avoid it."

The only conversion involved in Vipassana is from misery to happiness, from bondage to liberation.