Whether your pleasing or pissing everybody off, your doing something wrong.
I don't stand for black man's side, I don't stand for white man's side, I stand for God's side.
Art is not about itself but the attention we bring to it.
Handle a book as a bee does a flower, extract its sweetness but do not damage it.
Be an example to teach, be a role model to follow, and be a leader to emulate.
There is some kind of a sweet innocence in being human- in not having to be just happy or just sad- in the nature of being able to be both broken and whole, at the same time.
The elegance under pressure is the result of fearlessness.
Self-talk reflects your innermost feelings.
Quality is not an act, it is a habit.
Sometimes it's hard to look at a flower, when your dying inside.
So he was queer, E.M. Forster. It wasn't his middle name (that would be 'Morgan'), but it was his orientation, his romping pleasure, his half-secret, his romantic passion. In the long-suppressed novel...