Surviving is important. Thriving is elegant.

Don't hesitate to learn the most painful aspects of our history, understand it.

Don't trust people who don't laugh. I don't.

I come as one, but stand as 10,000.

I had read a Tale of Two Cities and found it up to my standards as a romantic novel. She opened the first page and I heard poetry for the first time in my life...her voice slid in and curved down trough and over the words. She was nearly singing.

I am grateful to have been loved and to be loved now and to be able to love, because that liberates. Love liberates. It doesn't just hold - that's ego. Love liberates. It doesn't bind. Love says, 'I love you. I love you if you're in China. I love you if you're across town. I love you if you're in Harlem. I love you. I would like to be near you. I'd like to have your arms around me. I'd like to hear your voice in my ear. But that's not possible now, so I love you. Go.'

I walk into a room Just as cool as you please, And to a man, The fellows stand or Fall down on their knees.