Michelle felt that if people didn’t like the way they looked in her book then they should have behaved differently.

It smelled of oily flowers, like the worn pillowcases of long-ago lovers.

How many lovers did a person need, anyway?

Michelle had great admiration for criminals and crime, though only from a distance.

You can’t get lost if you have nowhere to be.

You can’t let the apocalypse rule your life.

You will never be rewarded for the dreams you slept over day in day out. You will be rewarded for dreams you stay awake and achieved.

There are two ways to learn life's lessons, the easy way and the hard way. I seem to prefer the hard way.

It's not the endings that will haunt youBut the space where they should lie, The things that simply fadedWithout one final wave goodbye.

Not if I know myself at all.

The myth of black women profiting at the expense of black men is the oldest rap around.

Benefit of clergy: Half-rate on the railroad.

What do Harley-Davidson, LEGO, and Apple have in common? They're all based on communities.

But if you search further, you find in yourself nothing similar to God, but rather you affirm that God stands above all this as cause, origin, and the light of life of your intellective soul.

One of the things I'm always proud of is 'Promises made, promises kept.' I've never ever not done what I've said I'm going to do.

Such being the happiness of the times, that you may think as you wish, and speak as you think.