Effort is admirable. Achievement is valuable.

Moral outrage is the most powerful motivating force in politics.

Never give a bureaucrat a chance to say no.

Winners aren't perfect. They made fewer mistakes than their rivals.

The winner in a political contest is determined by the number and the effectiveness of the activists on the respective sides.

Don't get mad except on purpose.

You can't save the world if you can't pay the rent.

In politics, nothing moves unless it's pushed.

Politics is of the heart as well as of the mind. Many people don't care how much you know until they know how much you care.

Political technology determines political success.

Actions have consequences.

A black woman making art is a disruptive act. Every story that I tell as a woman is a political act, even if I want to tell a 'silly love story.' The fact it exists through my gaze is radical.

Poverty, hatred, war, police-criminals, bureaucracy, insanity, all symptoms of The Human Virus.

Not what we wish but what we need Oh! let your grace supply The good unasked in mercy grant The ill though asked deny.

The spectacles of experience through them you will see clearly a second time.

The solicitor general is sometimes referred to as the 10th Supreme Court justice - a pretty important position.

My mom just understands about stuff. We have a really good trust, and she knows I can take care of myself.

Thought is creating divisions out of itself and then saying that they are there naturally.

When I make an American movie it's going to come out all over the world-it doesn't happen the same way for an Italian film or a French film.

I hope you learn to love yourself for who you are and what you look like, and how you were born to be, because you are perfect in your own way.

Behavior is a much better barometer of what you are than words.