We are not our brother’s keeper we are our brother and we are our sister. We must look past complexion and see community.

Nothing will work unless you do.

A bird doesn’t sing because it has an answer, it sings because it has a song.

Try to be a rainbow in someone's cloud.

We may encounter many defeats but we must not be defeated.

Nothing can dim the light which shines from within.

I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.

You may encounter many defeats, but you must not be defeated. Please remember that your difficulties do not define you. They simply strengthen your ability to overcome.

My mission in life is not merely to survive, but to thrive; and to do so with some passion, some compassion, some humor, and some style

If you are always trying to be normal you will never know how amazing you can be.

You may shoot me with your words, you may cut me with your eyes, you may kill me with your hatefulness, but still, like air, I'll rise!

Let the pain & suffering of all that appears to be lost, be soothed, healed & comforted.

Always work hard, never give up, and fight until the end because it's never really over until the whistle blows.

Dogs are the closest we come to knowing the divine love of God on this side of eternity.

Just like any woman,...we weave our stories out of our bodies. Some of us through our children, or our art; some do it just by living. It's all the same.

Nothing was your own except the few cubic centimetres inside your skull.

There is no person, no theorist so reckless as he who says that the facts speak for themselves.

There is no reason to confuse television news with journalism.

I don't think I've had any great success in predicting politics or social change, nor have I really tried.

Even when tied in a thousand knots, the string is still but one.