Perhaps travel cannot prevent bigotry, but by demonstrating that all peoples cry, laugh, eat, worry, and die, it can introduce the idea that if we try and understand each other, we may even become fri...
While the rest of the world has been improving technology, Ghana has been improving the quality of man's humanity to man.
I'm interested in women's health because I'm a woman. I'd be a darn fool not to be on my own side.
You may write me down in history with your bitter, twisted lines. You may trod me in the very dirt, but still, like dust, I'll rise.
I'm convinced of this: Good done anywhere is good done everywhere. For a change, start by speaking to people rather than walking by them like they're stones that don't matter. As long as you're breath...
Loving someone liberates the lover as well as the beloved. And that kind of love comes with age.
When things were very bad his soul just crawled behind his heart and curled up and went to sleep
The love of the family, the love of one person can heal. It heals the scars left by a larger society. A massive, powerful society.
Human beings love poetry. They don't even know it sometimes... whether they're the songs of Bono, or the songs of Justin Bieber... they're listening to poetry.
I know some people might think it odd - unworthy even - for me to have written a cookbook, but I make no apologies. The U.S. poet laureate Billy Collins thought I had demeaned myself by writing poetry...
If you find it in your heart to care for somebody else, you will have succeeded.
I had given up some youth for knowledge, but my gain was more valuable than the loss.
I'm grateful to intelligent people. That doesn't mean educated. That doesn't mean intellectual. I mean really intelligent. What black old people used to call 'mother wit' means intelligence that you h...
Most people don't grow up. Most people age. They find parking spaces, honor their credit cards, get married, have children, and call that maturity. What that is, is aging.
Each time a woman stands up for herself, without knowing it possibly, without claiming it, she stands up for all women.
There is nothing quite so tragic as a young cynic, because it means the person has gone from knowing nothing to believing nothing.
Your crown has been bought and paid for. Put it on your head and wear it.
I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.
If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude.
You may write me down in historyWith your bitter, twisted lies,You may tread me in the very dirtBut still, like dust, I'll rise.Does my sassiness upset you? Why are you beset with gloom? 'Cause I walk...