It’s one of the greatest gifts you can give yourself, to forgive. Forgive everybody.
I’m grateful for being here, for being able to think, for being able to see, for being able to taste, for appreciating love – for knowing that it exists in a world so rife with vulgarity, with brutality and violence, and yet love exists. I’m grateful to know that it exists.
Easy reading is damn hard writing. But if it’s right, it’s easy. It’s the other way round, too. If it’s slovenly written, then it’s hard to read. It doesn’t give the reader what the careful writer can give the reader.
We must be warriors in the struggle against ignorance.
I’m grateful to be an American. I am grateful that we can be angry at the terrorist assault and at the same time be intelligent enough not to hold a grudge against every Arab and every Muslim.
I could fall in love with a sumo wrestler if he told stories and made me laugh. Obviously, it would be easier if someone was African-American and lived next door and went to the same church. Because then I wouldn’t have to translate.
The honorary duty of a human being is to love.
Bringing the gifts that my ancestors gave, I am the dream and the hope of the slave. I rise. I rise. I rise.
I do not trust people who don’t love themselves and yet tell me, ‘I love you.’ There is an African saying which is: Be careful when a naked person offers you a shirt.
We can learn to see each other and see ourselves in each other and recognize that human beings are more alike than we are unalike.
Does my sexiness upset you? Does it come as a surprise That I dance like I’ve got diamonds At the meeting of my thighs?
The truth is very important. No matter how negative it is, it is imperative that you learn the truth, not necessarily the facts. I mean, that, that can come, but facts can stand in front of the truth and almost obscure the truth. It is imperative that students learn the truth of our history.
I think a hero is any person really intent on making this a better place for all people.
Do the best you can until you know better. Then when you know better, do better.
Forgive yourself – no one else will.
Make every effort to change things you do not like. If you cannot make a change, change the way you have been thinking. You might find a new solution.
Don’t bring negative to my door.
I try to see every day as a celebration.
Everybody is worth everything.
We need Joy as we need air. We need Love as we need water. We need each other as we need the earth we share.