Discomfort is always a necessary part of enlightenment.

you can't know the meaning of the lesson until class is over!

...no woman can love a weak man hard enough to make him strong.

As African-Americans, we often spend our time and energy blaming other people for the problems we see around us.

Loneliness is random; solitude is ritual.

Sometimes you meet yourself on the road before you have a chance to learn the appropriate greeting. Faced with your own possibilities, the hard part is knowing a speech is not required. All you have to say is yes.

the problem with knowing is that it takes away the possibility of pretending!