In this country American means white. Everybody else has to hyphenate.

I have only to break into the tightness of a strawberry, and I see summer - its dust and lowering skies.

If you want to fly, you have to give up the things that weigh you down.

The function of freedom is to free someone else.

Don’t beg anybody for anything, especially love.

There is no such thing as race. None. There is just a human race - scientifically, anthropologically. Racism is a construct, a social construct... it has a social function, racism.

There is no time for despair, no place for self-pity, no need for silence, no room for fear. We speak, we write, we do language. That is how civilizations heal.

If there's a book you really want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it.

In times of dread, artists must never choose to remain silent.

All water has a perfect memory and is forever trying to get back to where it was.

Oppressive language does more than represent violence; it is violence; does more than represent the limits of knowledge; it limits knowledge.

The present becomes the past instantaneously. Look back by all means but remember that you’re moving forward.

People always love it when you say their dogs are nice. Just shows you how out of touch they are.

I always make my dreams into goals.

Communication - the human connection - is the key to personal and career success.

Our world is obsessed with success. But how does God define success? Success in God's eyes is faithfulness to His calling.

I thank God I am endued with such qualities that if I were turned out of the Realm in my petticoat I were able to live in any place in Christendom.

I have grown more forgiving. I accept that not everything is for me. I'm not as in love with my own opinions as I used to be. And anger is not something that comes to me as quickly as it once did.

Lofty words cannot construct an alliance or maintain it; only concrete deeds can do that.

Deep in the HEART every mystery of spirit is hidden.

I am quite correctly described as 'more of a sponge than an inventor....'