We must memorize nine numbers and deny we have a soul.

My head's a carousel of pictures and The spinning never stops.

I really just want to be warm yellow light that pours over everyone I love.

I find that life is easier when it is just a blur With no details to confuse who or what or where I was So when the ending comes the full regret will be obscure

I think there's so much about Rasta culture that's interesting. Just the idea of preaching one-ness, that we're all in this together.

Now I believe that lovers should be draped in flowers and laid entwined together on a bed of clover and left there to sleep, left there to dream of their happiness.

It's not a movie, no private screening This method acting, well, I call that living

I drink to stay warm, and to kill selected memories

I like to feel the burn of the audience's eyes when I'm whispering all my darkest secrets into the microphone.

If the world could remain within a frame like a painting on the wall, I think we'd see the beauty then and stand staring in awe.

You should never be embarrassed by your trouble with living, because it's the ones with the sorest throats who have done the most singing.

Self-discovery is a sacred knowledge

To embrace suffering culminates in greater empathy, the capacity to feel what it is like for the other to suffer, which is the ground for unsentimental compassion and love. (157)

My dream life is just to go back to my job full-time. And be with my family. You know, regular dreams, common dreams that everyone has.

African cavalry mounted on rhinos or hippos would have made mincemeat of European cavalry mounted on horses. But it couldnt happen.

But now that I was finally here, standing on the summit of Mount Everest, I just couldn't summon the energy to care.

I think race has been a burden for black Americans. Being Muslim has also been a challenge because so many people do not understand Islam.

The best writers who have put pen to paper have often had a journalism background.

Behind every great achievement is a dreamer of great dreams.

Women's intuition is the result of millions of years of not thinking.