You looking good." "Devil's confusion. He lets me look good long as I feel bad.

I have only to break into the tightness of a strawberry, and I see summer - its dust and lowering skies.

If you want to fly, you have to give up the things that weigh you down.

The function of freedom is to free someone else.

Don’t beg anybody for anything, especially love.

There is no such thing as race. None. There is just a human race - scientifically, anthropologically. Racism is a construct, a social construct... it has a social function, racism.

There is no time for despair, no place for self-pity, no need for silence, no room for fear. We speak, we write, we do language. That is how civilizations heal.

If there's a book you really want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it.

In times of dread, artists must never choose to remain silent.

All water has a perfect memory and is forever trying to get back to where it was.

Oppressive language does more than represent violence; it is violence; does more than represent the limits of knowledge; it limits knowledge.

A designer is only as good as the star who wears her clothes.

Whenever I read _Time_ or _Newsweek_ or such magazines, I wash my hands afterward. But how to wash off the small but odious stain such reading leaves on the mind?

Everyone is a threat, and anyone can be beat at any given moment. No one is invincible.

Often, what you see in the media is driven by economic forces.

I think that we all carry the divine within us.

Because of their age long training in human relations for that is what feminine intuition really is women have a special contribution to make any group enterprise.

Looking at this insolent earth, you hear the first battle cry of our species- trap it under a rock and together, screaming, attack and destroy it, as if killing a mammoth.

Don't ever talk until you know what you're talking about...

Know yourself -- and know your audience.

I used to like the word of the day and when I read, highlight words that I didn't know and look them up.