Sometimes there’s no one to listen to what you really might like to say at a certain moment. The paper always listens.

It was terrible when a single conversation with someone determined your whole future relationship.

... the real heroes of race and culture would always be the people who stepped out of their own line to make a larger circle.

Getting over what you did to me is not why I get out of bed anymore.

I'm like the weather, never really can predict when this rain cloud's gonna burst; when it's the high or it's the low, when you might need a light jacket. Sometimes I'm the slush that sticks to the bottom of your work pants, but I can easily be the melting snowflakes clinging to your long lashes. I know that some people like: sunny and seventy-five, sunny and seventy-five, sunny and seventy-five, but you take me as I am and never forget to pack an umbrella.

Mystery: Everything felt better before you got there than when you actually got there. When you actually got there, you didn't quite have the energy to be there.

Where we live in the world is never one place. Our hearts, those dogged mirrors, keep flashing us moons before we are ready for them.