Throughout life the world may box you up and put you down.But no matter what.Everything you feel is valid and true.Everything you are is real and beautiful.Never let anyone deny you of that.

I love you all.Not just the you that you show yourself as, but the you that is true.The you that is you.The you that is nothing else other than itself.

I voted for every woman who has to leave a baby too soon, who has to downgrade her career, or who is made to feel invisible in her role as a mother.

We really don't get to understand /why/ most of the time. It's true.

Better is little with the fear of the Lord, than great treasure, and trouble therewith.

Acting is all about likability.

What good deed can government do for religion? The best deed of all: leave it free and unencumbered, burdened by neither enmity nor amity.

All art comes from other art, and all immigrants come from other places.

To read quotations is to live in a planet with multiple suns!

You have to know how to look even if you don't know what you're looking for.

Don't be intimidated by what you don't know.

American means white, and Africanist people struggle to make the term applicable to themselves with ethnicity and hyphen after hyphen after hyphen.