A voice cannot carry the tongue and the lips that gave it wings. Alone must it seek the ether. And alone and without his nest shall the eagle fly across the sun.

Sorrow is too great to exist in small hearts.

All can hear, but only the sensitive can understand.

Women opened the windows of my eyes and the doors of my spirit. Had it not been for the woman-mother, the woman-sister, and the woman-friend, I would have been sleeping among those who seek the tranquility of the world with their snoring.

It has been said that next to hunger and thirst, our most basic human need is for storytelling.

He who understands you is greater kin to you than your own brother. For even your own kindred neither understand you nor know your true worth.

Your clothes conceal much of your beauty, yet they hide not the unbeautiful.