In the end, it is my belief, words are the only things that can construct a world that makes sense.

The past is what you take with you.

The past is a cupboard full of light and all you have to do is find the key that opens the door.

Get down, ' Bunty says grimly. 'Mummy's thinking.' (Although what Mummy's actually doing is wondering what it would be like if her entire family was wiped out and she could start again.)

Awaken the divinity of a sacred self.

When it comes to making an album I take that very seriously. I am meticulous, overworked. That's my time to put everything under the microscope.

I hate banana bread. It's too suspicious-looking. I always thought the cooked banana looked like insect legs.

For the beloved should not allow me to turn my infantile fantasies into reality: On the contrary, he should help me to go beyond them.

Black Girls rock because we have no other choice.

What are books but folly, and what is an education but an arrant hypocrisy, and what is art but a curse when they touch not the heart and impel it not to action?

Every reform movement has a lunatic fringe.

A mind always employed is always happy.

It happens that we DON’T SEE CHRIST AS GOD but simply the right man at the right time at the right place.

His element is so fine Being sharpened by his death, To drink from the wine-breath While our gross palates drink from the whole wine.