Time is the element that controls the consciousness, the very being of the people.

There's something to be said about a slightly plump person—you have just enough of too much.

The inevitable is no less a shock just because it is inevitable.

Express everything you like. No word can hurt you. None. No idea can hurt you. Not being able to express an idea or word will hurt you more. Like a bullet.

I was given a dictionary when I was seven, and I read it because I had nothing else to read. I read it the way you read a book.

People don't make changes because things are wonderful.

I would be lost without the feeling of antagonism that people have towards me. I write out of defiance.

People only say I’m angry because I’m black and I’m a woman.

A great piece of literature encompasses all that is and all that will be.

...yet a memory cannot be trusted, for so much of the experience of the past is determined by the experience of the present.

I'm so used to being misunderstood.

I've been thinking a lot aboit the energy of the universe. And if energy can't ever be created or destroyed, only transferred, what do you think happens to people's energy once they die?

I'd rather make my crib a house of God and pray directly to God verses, than listening to this hypocritical leaders/priest experiencing too much failure!!!

Time is a stream which glides smoothly on and is past before we know.

I love to watch cities wake up, and Paris wakes up more abruptly, more startlingly, than any place I know.

Focus on your potential instead of your limitations.

In an ongoing relationship, each current criticism packs the punches of all the others that have gone before.

Nirvana and enlightenment exist just on the other side of your sensory perceptions and your thoughts.

How, like a moth, the simple maid Still plays around the flame!

The jealous man's disease is of so malignant a nature, that it converts all it takes into its own nourishment.

I want to conquer the world and it seems like my own family is putting a stop to that.