We can be better, we can be wiser, we can be more kind. Yes we have to change. We have to grow up and stop acting like 10 years old. Yes there is much to do, much to see, much to go into.

Nothing will work unless you do.

A bird doesn’t sing because it has an answer, it sings because it has a song.

Try to be a rainbow in someone's cloud.

We may encounter many defeats but we must not be defeated.

Nothing can dim the light which shines from within.

I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.

You may encounter many defeats, but you must not be defeated. Please remember that your difficulties do not define you. They simply strengthen your ability to overcome.

My mission in life is not merely to survive, but to thrive; and to do so with some passion, some compassion, some humor, and some style

If you are always trying to be normal you will never know how amazing you can be.

You may shoot me with your words, you may cut me with your eyes, you may kill me with your hatefulness, but still, like air, I'll rise!

There is desire in the perfect, beauty in the imperfect.Thus I lust over the flawless, and fall amorously forceless to the flawed.

I would have run awayInto the forestTo live in a nestMade of dreamsAnd green leaves

I come from a family that has always emphasized and enjoyed sports - golf, tennis, football, baseball and the rest.

Feminism as a theoretical enterprise is approached differently by Black women depending on where we are. There are more reformist Black women who tend to use the phrase "Black feminism".

Facebook just sounds like a drag, in my day seeing pictures of peoples vacations was considered a punishment

I think Joe Biden made correct decision for him and his family. Personally,I would rather run agianst Hillary [Clinton] because her record is so bad.

I just can't smile at people for money.

I wouldn't want anyone to destroy the earth

The desert is cold early in the morning. Laying down on that sand is like laying on a block of ice.

Honest criticism and sensitive appreciation are directed not upon the poet but upon the poetry.