You are your best thing

Laughter is more serious than tears.

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

Definitions belong to the definers, not the defined.

Love is never any better than the lover.

In times of dread, artists must never choose to remain silent.

Let your face speak what's in your heart.

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

Liberation means you don't have to be silenced.

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

I dream a dream that dreams back at me.

In this country American means white. Everybody else has to hyphenate.

The peace I am thinking of is the dance of an open mind when it engages another equally open one.

Don’t beg anybody for anything, especially love.

A friend gathers all the pieces and gives them back in the right order.

All important things are hard.

Make a difference about something other than yourselves.

If there's a book you really want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it.

The function of freedom is to free someone else.