“I always know the ending; that’s where I start.”

You are your own stories.

I don’t think one parent can raise a child. I don’t think two parents can raise a child. You really need the whole village.

But to find out the truth about how dreams die, one should never take the word of the dreamer.

He wants to put his story next to hers.

There is no such thing as race. None. There is just a human race – scientifically, anthropologically. Racism is a construct, a social construct, it has a social function, racism.

Like any artist without an art form, she became dangerous.

Misery don’t call ahead. That’s why you have to stay awake – otherwise it just walks on in your door.

Freeing yourself was one thing; claiming ownership of that freed self was another.

At some point in life the world’s beauty becomes enough.

Art invites us to know beauty and to solicit it, summon it, from even the most tragic of circumstances.

Beloved, you are my sister, you are my daughter, you are my face; you are me.

Passion is never enough; neither is skill.

My theory is that the world is a difficult place to live in and distraction is the name of the game.

If there is a book that you want to read, but it hasn’t been written yet, you must be the one to write it.

Freedom is choosing your responsibility. It’s not having no responsibilitie s; it’s choosing the ones you want.

Your life is already artful-waiting, just waiting, for you to make it art.

Everyone wishes to be loved, but in the event, nearly no one can bear it. Everyone desires love but also finds it impossible to believe that he deserves it.

We believed in our idea – a family park where parents and children could have fun- together.

I believe most plain girls are virtuous because of the scarcity of opportunity to be otherwise.

If you can’t get emotional about what you believe in your heart, you’re in the wrong business.

You are the most influential person you will talk to all day.

Where you are right now doesn’t have to determine where you’ll end up.

First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do.

You cannot always control the powers-that-be. You just have to have faith and stand by the things you believe in.