When you write ,it's like braiding your hair. Taking a handful of coarse unruly strands and attempting to bring then unity.

All anyone can hope for is just a tiny bit of love, like a drop in a cup if you can get it, or a waterfall, a flood, if you can get that too.

Love is like the rain. It comes in a drizzle sometimes. Then it starts pouring and if you're not careful it will drown you.

Create dangerously, for people who read dangerously. ... Writing, knowing in part that no matter how trivial your words may seem, someday, somewhere, someone may risk his or her life to read them.

There is a frustration too, that at moments when there's not a coup, when there are not people in the streets, that the country disappears from people's consciousness.

It's not easy to start over in a new place,' he said. 'Exile is not for everyone. Someone has to stay behind, to receive the letters and greet family members when they come back.

People are just too hopeful, and sometimes hope is the biggest weapon of all to use against us. People will believe anything.

I think Haiti is a place that suffers so much from neglect that people only want to hear about it when it’s at its extreme. And that’s what they end up knowing about it.

Toni Cade Bambara said: “Writing is the way I participate in the struggle.”

Misery won't touch you gentle. It always leaves its thumbprints on you; sometimes it leaves them for others to see, sometimes for nobody but you to know of.

I also know there are timeless waters, endless seas, and lots of people in this world whose names don't matter to anyone but themselves. I look up at the sky and I see you there.

Jesus that I know as my Redeemer cannot be less than God

I think Twitter has brought something totally new to the table.

An actor really suffers when the director isn't prepared because you start running out of time for the shoot and then have to do it fast.

I think the secret to happiness is having a Teflon soul. Whatever comes your way, you either let it slide or you cook with it.

To try to be brave is to be brave.

No, communication is terrible!

Silence is the potential from which music can arise.

He who can properly define and divide is to be considered a god.

To be a part of a show that makes that not feel demanding and makes it feel natural and makes you want to go to work, every day, and be excited about it, from what I hear, that's pretty rare.

I think natural gas has been a big part of the solution if in fact we need to reduce man-generated carbon dioxide emissions.