The success of your presentation will be judged not by the knowledge you send but by what the listener receives.

For this was the round of love: fear which leads on desire, tenderness and fury, and that brutal anguish which triumphantly follows pleasure.

I am conscious of the fact that the subject of hell is not a very pleasant one. It is very unpopular, controversial and misunderstood.... As a minister, I must deal with it. I cannot ignore it.

All collective judgments are wrong. Only racists make them. No human race is superior; no religious faith is inferior.

The only thing that lives beyond the grave is the wake you have created by the way you have lived your life; the goals you have set; the distance away from the normal you dared to tread.

The greatest artists always come round to simplicity.

The birth of love is always accompanied by the idea of solitude. A single being appears, and the rest of the world grows empty.

Our entire biological system, the brain, and the Earth itself, work on the same frequencies.

I implore those who love me to love my solitude.

I was not allowed to be an individual. I was black and I was a woman - and I was a black woman.

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