Such as I am, I am a precious gift.

If you are silent about your pain, they’ll kill you and say you enjoyed it.

Sometimes, I feel discriminated against, but it does not make me angry. It merely astonishes me. How can any deny themselves the pleasure of my company? It's beyond me.

I have the nerve to walk my own way, however hard, in my search for reality, rather than climb upon the rattling wagon of wishful illusions.

Love makes your soul crawl out from its hiding place.

All my skinfolk ain't kinfolk.

There are years that ask questions and years that answer.

Research is formalized curiosity. It is poking and prying with a purpose.

I love myself when I am laughing. . . and then again when I am looking mean and impressive.

Bitterness is the coward's revenge on the world for having been hurt.

If you haven't got it, you can't show it. If you have got it, you can't hide it.

I think that, even if we forget each other, we'll remember in our dreams.

When you are a grown up your brothers become your neighbors and your unconditional brotherhood become your conditional neighborhood.

The work of Nigeria is not complete for as long as there is any one Nigerian who goes to bed on empty stomach.

I do suffer from depression, I suppose. Which isn't that unusual. You know, a lot of people do.

Loss is very painful, because any kind of loss leaves a hole in the fabric of one's existence.

In this dream, I wasn’t a coyote shapeshifter trying to hold a werewolf, I was Coyote’s almost daughter, and I had all the strength of the world in my arms.

Knowledge can never replace friendship. I prefer to be an idiot!

It is more difficult by far to be independent of our own inner shackles than it is of the shackles that others might place upon us.

You can tell if it's a good collection if people are afraid of it. In ten years, everyone will love it.

The dreams of the 1960s began to disappear in the 1970s. The economy collapsed, and so did the optimism of the Metabolists.