What you're supposed to do when you don't like a thing is change it. If you can't change it, change the way you think about it. Don't complain.

Words are things. You must be careful, careful about calling people out of their names, using racial pejoratives and sexual pejoratives and all that ignorance. Don’t do that. Some day we’ll be able to measure the power of words. I think they are things. They get on the walls. They get in your wallpaper. They get in your rugs, in your upholstery, and your clothes, and finally in to you.

I have risked everything to tell the truth. Tell the truth

Something made greater by ourselves and in turn that makes us greater.

By love I don't mean indulgence. I do not mean sentimentality. And in this instance, I don't even mean romance. I mean that condition that allowed humans to dream of God.That condition that allowed the "dumb" to write spirituals and Russian songs and Irish lilts. That is love, and it's so much larger than anything I can conceive.

There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.

Everybody is worth everything.