“To know love we have to invest time and commitment.”

I will not have my life narrowed down. I will not bow down to somebody else’s whim or to someone else’s ignorance.

Life-transforming ideas have always come to me through books.

The rage of the oppressed is never the same as the rage of the privileged.

Knowing how to be solitary is central to the art of loving. When we can be alone, we can be with others without using them as a means of escape.

The people I love, I’m committed to loving for the rest of my life.

What we cannot imagine cannot come into being.

No black woman writer in this culture can write “too much”. Indeed, no woman writer can write “too much”. No woman has ever written enough.

You can only realize change if you live simply. Once people want enormous excess, you can hardly do social change.

To love well is the task in all meaningful relationships, not just romantic bonds.

There is no life to be found in violence. Every act of violence brings us closer to death.

Justice demands integrity. It’s to have a moral universe – not only know what is right or wrong but to put things in perspective, weigh things. Justice is different from violence and retribution; it requires complex accounting.

When we choose to love, we choose to move against fear, against alienation and separation. The choice to love is a choice to connect, to find ourselves in the other.

To know love we have to invest time and commitment.

Once you do away with the idea of people as fixed, static entities, then you see that people can change, and there is hope.

Honesty and openness is always the foundation of insightful dialogue.

Every terrorist regime in the world uses isolation to break people’s spirits.

There’s that moment every morning when you look in the mirror: Are you committed, or are you not?

If it was something that I really committed myself to, I don’t think there’s anything that could stop me becoming President of the United States.

If the soul is left in darkness sins will be committed. The guilty one is not he who commits the sin, but he who causes the darkness

There’s always a way – if you’re committed.

We must be committed to getting back up and beginning again the exact same number of times that we fall, trip, or get pushed down.⁣

When you are not pursuing your goal, you are literally committing spiritual suicide.

My brother!! I wouldn’t be the player I am today without your commitment and friendship throughout this whole journey!

Once a man has made a commitment to a way of life, he puts the greatest strength in the world behind him. It’s something we call heart power. Once a man has made this commitment, nothing will stop him short of success.