I think people are sometime reluctant to read outside of their own race. This is heartbreaking.

There is something so deeply visceral about libraries for me-rooms and rooms full of people dreaming and remembering.

Diversity is about all of us, and about us having to figure out how to walk through this world together.

But on paper, things can live forever. On paper, a butterfly never dies.

People are going to judge you all the time no matter what you do...Don't worry about other people. Worry about you.

I do believe that books can change lives and give people this kind of language they wouldn't have had otherwise.

I believe in one day and someday and this perfect moment called Now.

Even the silence has a story to tell you. Just listen. Listen.

The empty swing set reminds us of this-- that bad won't be bad forever, and what is good can sometimes last a long, long time.

I feel like the world stopped. And I got off...and then it started spinning again, but too fast for me to hop back on. I feel like I'm still trying to get a...to get some kind of foothold on living

In all your getting, get understanding.

Her grandparents’ house was an old crammed up space just like all the others there, but to Sofia it had the luxuries of a palace and the reverence of a church.

People talk about ‘service, effort, love, knowledge’. But with knowledge you know what love is, and what it is not.

TACKLE the ROOT CAUSE not the EFFECT.

Every good painter paints what he is.

I'm not ashamed of what I am and that I have curves and that I'm thick. I like my body.

I love pasta with the homemade marinara sauce I had as a kid.

It's not that I dislike many people. It's just that I don't like many people.

Every mind deserves to be free. When the mind is free, that's the end of suffering.

I feel like unforgiveness, bitterness and resentment, it blocks the flows of God's blessings in life.

I will go wash; And when my face is fair, you shall perceive Whether I blush or no.