We can't hold on to anyone or anything, you know. We lose everything except that which we carry within us.

When you love someone, it doesn't really matter if they love you back or not. Having love in your heart for someone is its own reward. or punishment, depending on the circumstances.

The Universe doesn't like secrets. It conspires to reveal the truth, to lead you to it.

Many people believe that evil is the presence of something. I think it's the absence of something.

I think that's the moment when we all grow up, when we stop blaming our parents for the messes we've made out of our lives and start owning the consequences of our actions.

You can cut the ties that bind but not without losing a part of yourself. You can walk away and hide from the people who made you, but you'll always hear them calling your name.

The universe conspires to reveal the truth and to make your path easy if you have the courage to follow the signs.

It's strange how memory gets twisted and pulled like taffy in its retelling, how a single event can mean something different to everyone present.

The past is history. The future is a mystery. The present is a gift.

Hope is good. Without it, well, you do the math. But hope has to be like a prayer. Putting it out there to something more powerful than yourself.

Motherhood was an ever widening circle of good-byes.

Treat each other like human beings? But the other great apes have no class hierarchy.

World's biggest Miracle OR Magic is Zero.

I am full of mistakes and imperfections and therefore I am real ...

There are divers men who make a great show of loyalty, and pretend to such discretion in the hidden things they hear, that at the end folk come to put faith in them.

He that is neither one thing nor the other has no friends.

I make films about Black women and it doesn't mean that you can't see them as a Black man, doesn't mean that he can't see them as a white man or she can't see them as a white woman.

In a way, whoever you know in a certain place defines that place for you.

I was bored at school and bored in a lot of the kitchens. It seemed like all I was doing was putting things into saute pans.

Let Revolutionists be Romans, not Tatars.

I suppose I'm just an old soul.