Look closely at the present you are constructing: it should look like the future you are dreaming.

Listen, God love everything you love - and a mess of stuff you don't. But more than anything else, God love admiration. You saying God vain? I ast. Naw, she say. Not vain, just wanting to share a good thing. I think it pisses God off if you walk by the color purple in a field somewhere and don't notice it. What it do when it pissed off? I ast. Oh, it make something else. People think pleasing God is all God care about. But any fool living in the world can see it always trying to please us back.

As you know from school, it's when you have not prepared for the test that you have the fear of failing. And if you have prepared, even if you fail, you've done your best.

You have to steal back yourself. You have to steal back your own mind. Meditation helps in that area.

I almost never do anything for Black History Month, because I feel it's just another way to separate us.

In my work and in myself I reflect black people, women and men, as I reflect others. One day even the most self-protective ones will look into the mirror I provide and not be afraid.

I see children, all children, as humanity's most precious resource, because it will be to them that the care of the planet will always be left.