The Administration of the United States is such dread I almost feel paralyzed.

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.

In great contests each party claims to act in accordance with the will of God. Both may be, and one must be wrong. God cannot be for, and against the same thing at the same time.

What we seek is never what we seek. That is why we may not recognize that we've found what we truly yearn for.

Maybe love is something we’re meant to say casually and not regard as a prize from a treasure chest that a person earns.

From biscuit to brides, if there is anything their children really want, parents have a problem.

If I had been born ugly, you would have never heard of Pele

Beer makes you feel the way you ought to feel without beer.

I can connect with peoples' pain because I was 'po' before I was 'poor'.

There's more to a picture than meets the eye.

Human dignity is the same for all human beings: when I trample on the dignity of another, I am trampling on my own.

Don't let anyone drain you of your happiness today. Be drama free. Rise above the petty stuff.