Your true passion in life is what you’d be doing if somebody handed you 100 million dollars.

The deeper into this chapter in my life I get, the fainter the hum of crucifixion becomes.

Incarceration is when nobody writes a happy ending for a woman without a man.

I am done looking for love where it doesn’t exist. I am done coughing up dust in attempts to drink from dry wells.

You can't exploit a woman who has based her entire career on exploiting herself.

Patriarchy is women structuring lifelong decisions around men they haven't met.

I became a feminist upon the realization that, whether physical, mental, or emotional, everything involved in obtaining love and approval from men required some form of self-mutilation.

It is not your job to convince men to like you.

Children are often like hostages under the care of authority, with spankings and groundings nudging them like guns pointed at their skulls, threatening to shoot if the wrong words are uttered.

Southerners have mastered picking, choosing, and rationalizing religious texts to fit their social agenda better than their own mother’s fried chicken recipe.

Seasoned digital daters are like lions who have had their prey killed, butchered, and served to them on a tray in their artificial habitat for so long that they’ve forgotten how to hunt.

Whatever your passion, make sure you hold unto a philosophy that is bigger and greater than you.

If forced to choose between the penitentiary and the White House for four years I would say the penitentiary thank you.

Every stage of life has its own form of power, and we're always sort of terrified as to whether we can make the jump to the next form of power.

Embrace the higher truth that everything comes to pass exactly as it should. Find peace and wisdom by accepting what is.

There's no gap between the writer and the performer, which is what I think makes [Monty] Python unique. Five or six people who write Python and five or six who act it. That's what makes it unique.

Hatred like love feeds on the merest trifles. Everything adds to it. Just as the being we love can do no wrong, so the one we hate can do no right.

The man of science, like the man of letters, is too apt to view mankind only in the abstract, selecting in his consideration only a single side of our complex and many-sided being.

People of India who work day and night, they are my inspiration. I look at them and I work even harder.

Dear mama, yo baby boys doing fine tell the homies I'm in heaven and they aint got hoods.