“It is astonishing the lengths to which a person, or a people, will go in order to avoid a truthful mirror.”

It is easy to proclaim all souls equal in the sight of God; it is hard to make men equal on earth in the sight of men.

The world is before you, and you need not take it or leave it as it was when you came in.

Perhaps home is not a place but simply an irrevocable condition.

If you’re treated a certain way you become a certain kind of person.

American history is longer, larger, more various, more beautiful, and more terrible than anything anyone has ever said about it.

Those who say it can’t be done are usually interrupted by others doing it.

There are few things under heaven more unnerving than the silent, accumulating contempt and hatred of a people.

The victim who is able to articulate the situation of the victim has ceased to be a victim: he or she has become a threat.

Our crown has already been bought and paid for. All we have to do is wear it.

True rebels after all, are as rare as true lovers,and in both cases, to mistake a fever for passion can destroy one’s life.

Colour is not a human or a personal reality; it is a political reality.

Trust life, and it will teach you, in joy and sorrow, all you need to know.

You don’t have a home until you leave it and then, when you have left it, you never can go back.

Nobody is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart; for his purity, by definition, is unassailable.

Literature is indispensable to the world.

If I am not what you say I am, then you are not who you think you are.

The mirror image has always been my role model.

The eye, like a shattered mirror, multiplies the images of sorrow.

We urge G7 leaders to be as brave as women and girls are every single day.

My tattoos have become a part of me. When I look in the mirror, I just see my face.

Beauty starts in your head, not in your mirror.

Look at yourself in the mirror and don’t be afraid to notice how beautiful you are.

Love is like a mirror. When you love another you become his mirror and he becomes yours. And reflecting each other’s love you see infinity.

I learned, when I look in the mirror and tell my story, that I should be myself and not peep whatever everybody is doing.