A ghetto can be improved in one way only: out of existence.

Not everything that is faced can be changed. But nothing can be changed until it is faced.

I can't believe what you say, because I see what you do.

Fires can't be made with dead embers, nor can enthusiasm be stirred by spiritless men. Enthusiasm in our daily work lightens effort and turns even labor into pleasant tasks.

Love takes off masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within.

The place in which I'll fit will not exist until I make it.

Trust life, and it will teach you, in joy and sorrow, all you need to know.

If the relationship of father to son could really be reduced to biology, the whole earth would blaze with the glory of fathers and sons.

You have to decide who you are and force the world to deal with you, not with its idea of you.

Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. Love is a battle, love is a war; love is a growing up.

The American idea of racial progress is measured by how fast I become white.

i am anearthquake& dancemost heavilyupon all myfaults.

It gets darker and darker, and then Jesus is born.” That line came back to me, from out of nowhere, and I decided to practice radical hope, hope in the face of not having a clue.

If you're having trouble finding someone to play with, why don't you just go play with yourself.

It sounded as if the streets were running, And then the streets stood still.

Focus on someone else’s problems for a change, I instructed myself. You need the practice. From now on you’ll have to live in a world you didn’t make up. Horrible thought.

I'm from New York. I will kill to get what I need.

I didn't know what types of movies I wanted to do. I want to do things that are different. I want to take my time with each role.

The blues had a baby and they called it rock and roll.

Republican democracy is overperfect and demands political virtues and talents far superior to our own.

My life is not easy, but it's awesome.