You need a whole community to raise a child. I have raised two children, alone.

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.

There is no road too long to the man who advances deliberately and without undue haste

I have been able to help my friends and people that I believe in pay their bills and stay afloat in L.A. while following their dreams.

This pro-choice issue is a legal issue that should be decided by the courts.

To be free of fear is to be full of Love.

What Washington needs is adult supervision.

There was free trade in Africa. There was free enterprise in Africa before the colonialists came.

I think when we were starting off, I picked a group of women to represent me. The top tiers of everyone that I've worked with are women. It felt more comfortable because they can relate to me.

You hear about the struggles with substances and all that, but [Phil Wood] was a really a great guy. This was a great man.

when someone you love dies, he becomes your enemy; he fights you tooth and nail from a hidden position; he successfully raids what small provisions you have gathered to keep yourself going.

Robbie Keane was like the cat that got the cheese