You learned in school that you have pencils and paper only because the trees gave themselves in unconditional sacrifice.

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.

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

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.

Platonic love is love from the neck up.

The world believes all blondes are stupid and brunettes are smarter. Well, I disagree.

Normal is absolutely my least favorite word.

I have a question. Do you guys think it's OK to drink while you're pregnant if you're planning on giving the baby up for adoption?

One of the things that I'm dying to do is to sing the hook on a big rap song. No one's ever called me to do that.

There is no frigate like a book

With your faults, dont hurry. Dont correct them thoughtlessly. What would you put in their place?

Sometimes, all you have to do is ask.

Man does not see reality as it is, but only as he perceives it, and his perception may be mistaken or biased.

Comedy is a very personal thing, and some people will find it funny, some people wont.