If you empty, you can be filled up with anything. It could be water or it could be gasoline.

If I can't change the people around me, I change the people around me.

I came from a mother and father who always made me secure in my beliefs, and that's where the love came from.

Reflect each day on all you have to be grateful for and you will receive more to be grateful for.

Knowledge, wisdom, and understanding don't come out of the microwave. You got to keep moving forward because the evil doesn't sleep.

It's weak to speak and blame somebody else ...When you destroy yourself.

Culture is this thing that we can exchange among ourselves as human beings to knock aside our differences and build upon our similarities. Cultural exchange is the ultimate exchange.

I got a letter from the government the other day I opened and read it...it said they were suckers.

Our freedom of speech is freedom or death, We got to fight the powers that be!

I spread the message of hope and of unity. That's what gets me up in the morning. I can tell you what is wrong, but I can't tell you how to fix it. I'm a raptivist, not a politician. I deal in hope.

The best way to boycott is to build your own

Great people don’t only know what to say

Intelligence is knowing the right answer. Wisdom is knowing when to say it.

For me, writing is a way of finding out about things I didn't know before I began writing.

No louder shrieks to pitying heaven are cast, When husbands or lap-dogs breathe their last.

There are seaons when our passions have slept so long that we know not whether they still exist in us. So does flax forget that it is combustible when the fire is away from it.

God exists or God does not exist. Leave it for us. Your task is to learn how to live peacefully.

I think that women who know who they are are beautiful.

You have to find out how to become the character.

It is almost as hard for us to sense our own species quality as it is to sense our species smell.

If thou couldst, doctor, cast The water of my land, find her disease, And purge it to a sound and pristine health, I would applaud thee to the very echo, That should applaud you again.