O, here's the shoe my baby wore, but, baby, where are you?

Shatter the icons of slavery and fear. Replace the leer of the minstrel's burnt-cork face with a proud, serene and classic bronze of Benin.

Even though I seem not human, a mute shelfof glucose, bottled blood, machineryto swell the lung and pump the heart—even so, do not put out my life. Let me still glow.

He that drinks his cider alone, let him catch his horse alone.

The most demanding part of living a lifetime as an artist is the strict discipline of forcing oneself to work steadfastly along the nerve of one’s own most intimate sensitivity.

I'll put you through hell, but at the end of it all we'll be champions.

I always say I wanna work with Alicia Keys. I'm in awe of her.

Praying for freedom never did me any good til I started praying with my feet.

What could he have done, one man against so many?" He could have tried, Brienne thought.

She'll understand what I already know - that death surrounds us all. And it tastes like metal between your teeth.

And sometimes I sit down to write, because that is what I like to do more and more in the future.

I believe in recognizing every human being as a human being - neither white, black, brown, or red.

Truth has not such an urgent air.