There's no better makeup than confidence

She remembered all too well how time had dragged without him, how she had shuffled about feeling waylaid, out of balance. How she could ever cope with his permanent absence?

I came to a stark realization: chronic surpluses could be almost as destabilizing as chronic deficits.

There is always something new coming out of Africa.

But music is, at the very minimum, inflammatory, exclusionary, divisive, encouraging of snobbery and solipsism.

For this freedom I have given all I had For this darkness I gave my light For this wisdom I have lost my innocence Take my petals And cover me with the night

Feare nothing but sinne.

The beauty of getting older is the surprise of what else you can do to make the world a better place with the wisdom that you've accrued over those years.

The weave of the personal and the political finally proves as irresistible as it is moving, partly because it has been drawn from extraordinary life.

I'm a monster, not a moron.

It's not just for its influence on us, but to knowknow that we can play a part in it, to understand the influence that we have outside our own existence.