For someone who can’t remember very much, there seems to be a lot I can’t forget.

Everytime I look at a zebra, I can't figure out whether it's black with white stripes or white with black stripes, and that frustrates me.

Love is not a because, it's a no matter what.

The human capacity for burden is like bamboo- far more flexible than you'd ever believe at first glance.

There are two ways to be happy: improve your reality, or lower your expectations.

There's always going to be bad stuff out there. But here's the amazing thing -- light trumps darkness, every time. You stick a candle into the dark, but you can't stick the dark into the light.

You can't look back - you just have to put the past behind you, and find something better in your future.

Until this moment, I had not realized that someone could break your heart twice, along the very same fault lines.

The wolves knew when it was time to stop looking for what they'd lost, to focus instead on what was yet to come.

If you have a sister and she dies, do you stop saying you have one? Or are you always a sister, even when the other half of the equation is gone?

‎Pick ten strangers and stick them in a room, and ask them which of us they feel sorrier for - you or me - and we all know who they'll choose.

If you hold onto a man hoping someone else won't get them you have learned how to be desperate, not wise.

Americans no longer experience vacations. They simply Sony them so they can ignore them for the rest of the year.

Stopping me? That's impossible. There's not anything that can really stop me.

I never made any money from my music. I don't make that much; I make it flip-flopping between five and ten different disciplines.

It's a humorous statement that doesn't mean anything. You can't lie to God - it's ridiculous.

Absolutely eat dessert first. The thing that you want to do the most, do that.

Black Poetry is not for Black People...it is for everybody

Be with those who help your being. Don't sit with indifferent people, whose breath comes cold out of their mouths.

We cannot bear to regard ourselves simply as playthings of blind chance, we cannot admit to feeling ourselves abandoned.

Around here, however, we don't look backwards for very long.