What you hope for, you also fear.

Don't wait around for other people to be happy for you. Any happiness you get you've got to make yourself.

Progress' affects few. Only revolution can affect many.

I love the natural world - it comes from my culture, which grew out of a people enslaved.

I don't focus on criticism. I prefer to praise people and the world, rather than criticize them and it.

All my life I had to fight. I had to fight my daddy. I had to fight my uncles. I had to fight my brothers. Girl, child ain't safe in a family of men, but I ain't never thought I had to fight in my own house. I loves Harpo. God knows I do. But I'll kill him dead before I let him beat me.

I find it difficult to feel responsible for the suffering of others. That's why I find war so hard to bear. It's the same with animals: I feel the less harm I do, the lighter my heart. I love a light heart. And when I know I'm causing suffering, I feel the heaviness of it. It's a physical pain. So it's self-interest that I don't want to cause harm.