Ava DuVernay Quote

A stranger may find beauty in you yet.

It is usually unbearably painful to read a book by an author who knows way less than you do, unless the book is a novel.

Maybe we're just falling stars, we once danced in the same skyline looking down at the world. And we've fallen like all others, from near and far, we've gathered together, but separated by time and sp...

Do not avert your eyes.It is important that you see this.It is important that you feelthis.

How simple a thing it seems to me that to know ourselves as we are, we must know our mothers names.

You know you're getting old when the candles cost more than the cake.

To begin to know ourselves we must have sincere conversations with ourselves as if with a good friend. We must answer without reserve, listen without judgement, and accept without condition. That is s...

I'm getting asked a lot, 'You don't have kids, so how do you know how to act like a mother?' I know nothing could compare, and I haven't had that experience, but when my niece was born, I felt like I...

It's when I hear your heartbeat that I know that I am alive.

We can learn a lot from animals, if we're prepared to accept that they may just know more about life than what we do.