Today is always here,' said Sethe. 'Tomorrow, never.

I have only to break into the tightness of a strawberry, and I see summer - its dust and lowering skies.

If you want to fly, you have to give up the things that weigh you down.

The function of freedom is to free someone else.

Don’t beg anybody for anything, especially love.

There is no such thing as race. None. There is just a human race - scientifically, anthropologically. Racism is a construct, a social construct... it has a social function, racism.

There is no time for despair, no place for self-pity, no need for silence, no room for fear. We speak, we write, we do language. That is how civilizations heal.

If there's a book you really want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it.

In times of dread, artists must never choose to remain silent.

All water has a perfect memory and is forever trying to get back to where it was.

Oppressive language does more than represent violence; it is violence; does more than represent the limits of knowledge; it limits knowledge.

Cordy slept late, awakening only when the noises of the house and the insistent sunlight became to obvious to be believably incorporated into her dreams any longer.

Don’t buy into the campaign that people don’t like change. We are built for it.

Think as if failure is not a possibility.

Fame will go by and, so long, I've had you, fame. If it goes by, I've always known it was fickle. So at least it's something I experience, but that's not where I live.

Even if people do not know what real kindness is, they nonetheless have it within them.

Special effects movies have taken over the universe. That and scary movies.

It takes time, it's a grind. There are no shortcuts. You've got to grind and grind.

Just going out on a foray to assemble a collection of street trophies about this or that running social sore can't be effective - and never was.

My mom's response after seeing a sign that read 'Love God, People and Life': 'Well a lot of people don't like people.'

I love the fact British men act cool whatever the situation so I'm planning to recruit there.