There's an ecstatic side to writing. It's like jazz. It just has a life.

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.

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Plan strategically for a very fulfilling future, but don't forget to enjoy the beautiful sight of this precious moment.

I think we Americans, of all people, understand the importance of a good, legal, constitutional framework as the basis of political life.

Men do not knowingly drink for the effect alcohol produces on the body. What they drink for is the brain-effect; and if it must come through the body, so much the worse for the body.

Poetry is often generations in advance of the thought of its time.

My eating habits were so bad for many years that I didn't actually know the intricacies of making a salad.

I tell you what, if the Cameroons get a goal back here they're literally gonna catch on fire.

Hip-hop is a voice for voiceless poor people.

Make me wanna kill myself, but I see death around the corner.

Logic won't change an emotion but action will.