In order for this to happen, your entire frame of reference will have to change, and you will be forced to surrender many things that you now scarcely know you have.

In order to have a conversation with someone you must reveal yourself.

Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. Love is a battle, love is a war; love is a growing up.

It is perfectly possible to be enamoured of Paris while remaining totally indifferent or even hostile to the French.

Great art can only be created out of love.

I started reading. I read everything I could get my hands on...By the time I was thirteen I had read myself out of Harlem. I had read every book in two libraries and had a card for the Forty-Second Street branch.

Know from whence you came. If you know whence you came, there are absolutely no limitations to where you can go.