A feminist is a woman lover not a man hater

We belong where we are most loved

Delayed, unexpressed appreciation is meaningless. The dead need no appreciation. The living do.

In a relationship, it is not what you ask and receive that delights. It is receiving what you wanted but never asked

There should be a measure for happiness or sadness, like the width of your smile, the twinkle in your eyes, the depth of your laughter or the salt of your tears.

There are times when you are home to yourself and you long for company.

No one is a failure until that is the only definition of themselves that they are willing to see within.

Only if I heal, can you heal. Only if you heal, can I heal. Otherwise, we would continue to scar each other.

Most of the conversations we are ever likely to have with people are the things we do not and cannot say

You know you have arrived when you have stopped caring about the destination

The stories we pretend do not exist, are the stories that will haunt us till the end.

How many people long for that "past, simpler, and better world, " I wonder, without ever recognizing the truth that perhaps it was they who were simpler and better, and not the world about them?

The smell of frustration cannot compete with the stench of non-creation

Though familiarity may not breed contempt it takes off the edge of admiration.

Bound as our lives are to the tyranny of time, it is through what we know of history that we are delivered from our bonds and escape - into time.

A radical is one who speaks the truth.

The White House is giving George W. Bush intelligence briefings. You know? some of these jokes just write themselves.

I personally don't enjoy films that bring black people down. I find that a majority of the films that black people are starred in nowadays, are ones focused on gang violence or dancing.

I was a terrible English student.

Reading makes me feel I've accomplished something, learned something, become a better person. ... Reading is bliss.

It is better to be disliked for being who you are than to be loved for who you are not.