People trying to separate people rather than bring us together... please. You don't just see it in America. It's all over the world.

Thank you, always say thank you; it's the greatest gift you can give someone; because thank you is what you say to God.

I did get knocked down flat in front of the whole world, and I rose. I didn't run away - I rose right where I'd been knocked down. And then that's how you get to know yourself. You say, hmm, I can get up!

That's the biggest gift I can give anybody: 'Wake up, be aware of who you are, what you're doing and what you can do to prevent yourself from becoming ill.'

I also wear a hat or a very tightly pulled head tie when I write. I suppose I hope by doing that I will keep my brains from seeping out of my scalp and running in great gray blobs down my neck, into my ears, and over my face.

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

While I know myself as a creation of God, I am also obligated to realize and remember that everyone else and everything else are also God's creation.