This is not an ending of my choosing. From now on I will choose my own endings

If we let it change us then they will have won

Womanhood... not at all a pretty sight

He had never heard a name for such a person. Did such a hybrid thing even exist?

Promise me that you will not become a politician... promise me you will become a real revolutionary instead.

Choosing instead to step on a landmine and be blown to pieces

Marcus felt that their beauty was not to be trusted. It was a dangerous beauty

We are your family now

If people saw him building a giant pair of silver wings, then they too would believe that they could fly

You cannot break me. You see, I know for certain that my parents were capable of flight

Valentine loved the idea that flight was possible for someone like him. Valentine believed.

This was how they learned their most valuable lesson about death - that after it there is life again, that things that perish will rise again, that after every ending there is another beginning

It is our reality, the way we live now, our truth. So of course we cannot acknowledge it, let alone print it

Harlem is a very family-oriented neighborhood, and it always has been.

Environmentalists and secular humanists insist that humans will destroy the planet. Corporate capitalists and many religious fundamentalists have no regard for wildlife and nature. Ultimately this dualistic battle is based on false premises. In fact this planet is more powerful than the human species.

You should not be defined by one bad performance.

Everything I see, I now see through a mother's eyes.

Time should make enemies and Life should make friends.

Nothing to be done really about animals. Anything you do looks foolish. The answer isn't in us. It's almost as if we're put here on earth to show how silly they aren't.

I love cinema.

We are increasingly becoming cyborg-like beings. We are becoming literally what we create. Biology, physics, and technology are evolving towards one and the same thing.

If a lion could talk, we could not understand him.

If your dreams don’t scare you, they are not big enough.

The miracle on earth are the laws of heaven.

Don’t ask yourself what the world needs, ask yourself what makes you come alive. And then go and do that. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive.

It strikes me that people want to be engaged, and that those who go into a bookstore in a time of crisis are much more likely to be looking for explanation than for escapism.

They say that time heals a broken heart, but time has stood still since we've been apart.

Public trust in both government and corporations is low, and deservedly so.

No matter what you do, if you're trying to create something new, your environment has a massive impact on you.

Because homecoming came first, and there was the homecoming court. The five guys on homecoming court were disqualified from being in the prom court. So being prom king was being sixth most popular.

I don't love the world. I think Jupiter should have hit us.

I am a perfectionist.

Take time to gather up the past so that you will be able to draw from your experience and invest them in the future.

It's amazing that no matter how much money you have, you can make some bad decisions, and in five months you're on the street, begging.

My father always taught by telling stories about his experiences. His lessons were about morality and art and what insects and birds and human beings had in common. He told me what it meant to be a man and to be a Black man. He taught me about love and responsibility, about beauty, and how to make gumbo.

Urban legend has it that Area 51 is connected by underground tunnels and trains to other secret facilities around the country.

In 1972, I signed a union card for SEIU. And for the last 38 years, 14 as president, it's been my life. I've seen the most miraculous, spectacular things. But there's a time to learn, a time to lead and a time to leave.