Education is all a matter of building bridges.

It takes a deep commitment to change and an even deeper commitment to grow.

Please, a definition: A hibernation is a covert preparation for a more overt action.

Life is to be lived, not controlled, and humanity is won by continuing to play in face of certain defeat.

Power doesn't have to show off. Power is confident, self-assuring, self-starting and self-stopping, self-warming and self-justifying. When you have it, you know it.

America is woven of many strands. I would recognise them and let it so remain. Our fate is to become one, and yet many. This is not prophecy, but description.

When I discover who I am, I'll be free.

I am not ashamed of my grandparents for having been slaves. I am only ashamed of myself for having at one time being ashamed.

What and how much had I lost by trying to do only what was expected of me instead of what I myself had wished to do?

God is love, I said, but art's the possibility of forms, and shadows are the source of identity.

There are few things in the world as dangerous as sleepwalkers.

I cannot sleep unless I am surrounded by books.

It seemed there was no end at all to the lies a person could tell, once she got started.

In fact, because of their connection to the land, farmers do more to protect and preserve our environment than almost anyone else. They are some of the best environmentalists around.

The GOP's freak out over Donald Trump. Just two months to Iowa, can anyone stop him?

Drive thy business or it will drive thee.

Racism is a virus. And since nobody's really looking too hard for a cure it reproduces itself over and over again.

Dear to me is sleep: still more, being made of stone, While pain and guilt still linger here below, Blindness and numbness--these please me alone; Then do not wake me, keep your voices low.

I think the United States is sick. It suffers from the sickness, the disease of being the victor and it needs to cure itself from this disease.

I am simply a pilgrim beginning the last leg of his pilgrimage on this earth.

i'M nOT thOM yorkE but a. ROBOT.