Experience, like a pale musician, holds a dulcimer of patience in his hand.

I love you not only for what you are, but for what I am when I am with you

I love thee to the depth and breadth and height my soul can reach.

Earth's crammed with heaven, And every common bush afire with God: But only he who sees takes off his shoes.

How do I love thee? Let me count the ways.

You're something between a dream and a miracle.

Light tomorrow with today!

You were made perfectly to be loved - and surely I have loved you, in the idea of you, my whole life long.

Silence is the best response to a fool.

I love you for the part of me that you bring out.

Why, what is to live? Not to eat and drink and breathe,—but to feel the life in you down all the fibres of being, passionately and joyfully.

Ask not of things to shed their veils. Unveil yourselves, and things will be unveiled.

This war is going to be full of women who fall in love with men they'll never see again. All we do is say goodbye over and over.

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.

It is the certainty that you are about to recover, that brings results, not the hope.

I had always been so much taken with the way all English people I knew always were going to see their lawyer. Even if they have no income and do not earn anything they always have a lawyer.

It is a good maxim to trust a person entirely or not at all.

I've always loved books. My mother told me that before I could talk, I'd babble in my crib as I turned the pages of my little cloth books, apparently telling stories to go along with the pictures.

When my faith is getting weak And I feel like giving in You breathe into me again.

Aspirations after the holy,--the only aspiration in which the human soul can be assured that it will never meet with disappointment.

What Tunisia urgently needs, is freedom and the building of a real democracy.