You only are free when you realize you belong no place - you belong every place - no place at all. The price is high. The reward is great.

I wasn't a pretty girl. I was six feet tall at 15, you know.

Shakespeare must be a black girl.

Tell the truth and not the facts.

Because of the routines we follow, we often forget that life is an ongoing adventure. . . Life is pure adventure, and the sooner we realize that, the quicker we will be able to treat life as art: to bring all our energies to each encounter, to remain flexible enough to notice and admit when what we expected to happen did not happen. We need to remember that we are created creative and can invent new scenarios as frequently as they are needed.

As long as you're breathing, it's never too late to do some good.

The country didn't get that way in a week; we've had years and years of getting behind in our economy. So President [Barack] Obama stepped into a hellhole and people wanted him to change it as soon as he came in. But he's got his adversaries to deal with in the House and Senate, so it's not easy.