Surely the earth can be saved by all the people who insist on love.

It no longer bothers me that I may be constantly searching for father figures; by this time, I have found several and dearly enjoyed knowing them all.

Just be what it is that you are, and that is just fine. You don't have to be what you're not in any way. Live that and live that fully, and that is where you discover ecstasy. You can't really have ecstasy as something other than yourself

I'm pore, I'm black, I may be ugly and can't cook, a voice say to everything listening. But I'm here.

But I don't know how to fight. All I know how to do is stay alive.

Guided by my heritage of a love of beauty and a respect for strength - in search of my mother's garden, I found my own.

Some people don't understand that it is the nature of the eye to have seen forever, and the nature of the mind to recall anything that was ever known.