Writing saved me from the sin and inconvenience of violence.

I have fallen in love with the imagination. And if you fall in love with the imagination, you understand that it is a free spirit. It will go anywhere, and it can do anything.

Womanist is to feminist as purple is to lavender.

The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don't have any.

No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow.

Look closely at the present you are constructing: it should look like the future you are dreaming.

Whenever you are creating beauty around you, you are restoring your own soul.

I don’t need a certain number of friends, just a number of friends I can be certain of.

Every small positive change we make in ourselves repays us in confidence in the future.

In nature, nothing is perfect and everything is perfect. Trees can be contorted, bent in weird ways, and they're still beautiful.

'Thank you' is the best prayer that anyone could say. I say that one a lot. Thank you expresses extreme gratitude, humility, understanding.

I think you’ll find since I already love you, your Siren’s serenade will have no effect on me.

In case nobody has told you, " she said, "this is the United States of America, where nobody has a right to rely on anybody else--where everybody learns to make his or her own way.

I cried because I was so beautiful.

You remove heavy metals out of the ground and you turn that into tables, and houses and bridges and dreams for people in the developing world. I love doing that.

To go nowhere, follow the crowd.

The warfare between the unaroused male and female is constant and ferocious. Each blames the other for his loss of soul.

Socialism is, in fact, a form of Christianity, people wishing to imitate Christ.

I did very much enjoy being part of an independent film. It was just the energy.

The Democratic Party structure is keenly aware of who makes our party strong.

Reason is the most active human faculty.