you got two feet, Sethe, not four." he said, and right then a forest sprang up between them; tactless and quiet.

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.

when i write of you, my deari am holding youin the most exquisiteways.

Also consider that someday, when you’re dead and rotted, kids with their baby teeth will sit in their time-geography class and laugh about how stupid you were.

The secret to enlightenment is kindness and selfless giving. Without that, it's just words, isn't it?

Global challenges require collective responses.

We do not want to just define issues; we want to help to create solutions

Theory is the essence of facts. Without theory scientific knowledge would be only worthy of the madhouse.

Great are the symbols of Being, But that which is symboled is greater; Vast the create and beheld, But vaster the Inward Creator.

There will always be a business cycle, and white-collar workers will get hit in the next recession like they always do in recessions.

There was a lot of tension between my dad and his mother and brothers. Sometimes when I was over there, I remember thinking, "I don't want to get shot."

The thing is that I'm an actor first, and in 'Once,' I was able to be a musician and a singer as well as an actor.