I met a lot of people in Europe. I even encountered myself.

It took many years of vomiting up all the filth I’d been taught about myself, and half-believed, before I was able to walk on the earth as though I had a right to be here.

I imagine one of the reasons people cling to their hates so stubbornly is because they sense, once hate is gone, they will be forced to deal with pain.

Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.

There are so many ways of being despicable it quite makes one’s head spin. But the way to be really despicable is to be contemptuous of other people’s pain.

The most dangerous creation of any society is the man who has nothing to lose.

It demands great spiritual resilience not to hate the hater whose foot is on your neck, and an even greater miracle of perception and charity not to teach your child to hate.

Freedom is not something that anybody can be given. Freedom is something people take, and people are as free as they want to be

People can cry much easier than they can change.

Perhaps home is not a place but simply an irrevocable condition.

Know from whence you came. If you know whence you came, there are absolutely no limitations to where you can go.

Neither love nor evil conquers all, but evil cheats more.

Many a death was precipitated by the food, the job, or the medication whose main function was to postpone it.

You have no experience of Rising if you have not Fallen before

Today is a new day. Even if you were wrong yesterday, you can get it right today.

Mammy's heart was like a pallid beach where Laila's footprints would forever wash away beneath the waves of sorrow that swelled and crashed, swelled and crashed.

I wasn't put on this earth to be housekeeper to my own child or to anyone else for that matter.

There is no such thing as "the user". Users... come in all shapes, sizes, and colors, and they have widely varying information needs.

The game in St. Louis has been halted in the fourth inning because of rain. I'll bet they have the jacuzzis going there.

Every man is the center of a circle, whose fatal circumference he can not pass.

I liken actors and movies and TV shows to football teams. We all have our favorite ones.