You can’t replace people you love with other people…But you can trust that you’re not going to run out of people to love.

What I want is so simple I almost can't say it: elementary kindness.

There was a roaring in my ears and I lost track of what they were saying. I believe it was the physical manifestation of unbearable grief.

God, why does a mortal man have children? It is senseless to love anything this much.

The very least you can do in your life is figure out what you hope for. And the most you can do is live inside that hope. Not admire it from a distance but live right in it, under its roof.

The flowers were beaten down, their bent-over heads bejeweled with diamond droplets like earring on sad, rich widows

What I want is so simple I almost can’t say it: elementary kindness.

A dog can’t think that much about what he’s doing, he just does what feels right.

Put your Body First!

I'm never gonna stop the rain by complaining, because I'm free, nothing's worrying me.

There are only a few places that I go where people recognize me anyway. I have to be at the right place, in the right city. It's not really that much of an issue.

Black culture is a fight. We want to hold on to what we are, but sometimes the things that we are can be totally negative. You have to think: can't we try something new and not be seen as suspect?

There are only two great currents in the history of mankind: the baseness which makes conservatives and the envy which makes revolutionaries.

That is the mystery of grace: it never comes too late.

Confusion is a word we have invented for an order which is not understood.

Negative feedback is better that none. I would rather have a man hate me than overlook me. As long as he hates me I make a difference.

Science, while it penetrates deeply the system of things about us, sees everywhere, in the dim limits of vision, the word mystery.

People in a temper often say a lot of silly, terrible things they mean.