Shakespeare must be a black girl.

One isn't born with courage. One develops it by doing small courageous things.

You can ask goodness in, show it how much you like it, make room for it. And it says, "Oh, I like this place, I think I'll stay here." Which is why people go into one house and say, "I want to take my shoes off." At another house, no matter how beautiful it is, they might say, "Hmm, I can't stay."

Don't get older just to get wiser. If you get older, you will be wiser, I believe that - if you dare. But get older because it's fun!

The more you know of your history, the more liberated you are.

We delight in the beauty of the butterfly, but rarely admit the changes it has gone through to achieve that beauty.

When things were very bad his soul just crawled behind his heart and curled up and went to sleep