Always in the black spirituals there's that promise that things are going to be better, by and by.

Listen to yourself and in that quietude you might hear the voice of God.

On this platform of peace, we can create a language to translate ourselves to ourselves and to each other.

You can only become truly accomplished at something you love. Don’t make money your goal. Instead pursue the things you love doing and then do them so well that people can’t take their eyes off of you.

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

One of the problems we have as writers is we don't take ourselves seriously while writing; being serious is setting aside a time and saying if it comes, good; if it doesn't come, good, I'll just sit here.

You can never go home again, but the truth is you can never leave home, so it's all right.