Now he knew why he loved her so. Without ever leaving the ground, she could fly. 'There must be another one like you,' he whispered to her. 'There's got to be at least one more woman like you.

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.

I am the State.

Part of the work is determining through what instrument you are playing. Actors are physical, olympian storytellers and we should be able to create entire landscapes with nothing.

I read like a wolf eats. I read myself to sleep every night.

Men fear being used; women fear being used up.

I'm sure it really is hard to be an oncologist, and actually, more and more people are surviving cancer.

If we don't tell people about our needs, it is much less likely they will be met.

People wait for something to happen in order to be happy; the key is to be happy regardless.

I try not to look for messages in films.

The Truth is realized in an instant; the Act is practiced step by step.

Are You Living or Just Existing?" -Tyler Perry The Family That Preys