I never let my politics supersede my manners.

Learn how to live, and you'll know how to die; learn how to die, and you'll learn how to live.

Morrie Schwartz

The silence of a flower: a kind of silence which we continually evade, of which we find only the shadow in dreams.

Lewis Thompson

'Do What You Gotta Do' is a positive, inspirational song that says no matter what it is whether you're up against challenges or trying to get your dreams and aspirations met, you should do what whatever you have to do shy of killing yourself or someone else.

Angie Stone

There's one more thing I want to say. It's a touchy subject. Black beauty. Black sensuality. We live in a culture where the beauty of black people isn't always as celebrated as other types. I'd like to help change that if I can!

Jody Watley

Every seed is awakened, and all animal life.

Sitting Bull

If triangles made a god, they would give him three sides.

Charles Montesquieu

Women today are dealing with both their independence and also the fact that their lives are built around finding and satisfying the romantic models we grew up with.

Jane Campion

When angry count to ten before you speak. If very angry, count to one hundred.

Thomas Jefferson

Feeling fat lasts nine months but the joy of becoming a mom lasts forever.

Nikki Dalton

Brother Preptil, the master of the music, had described Brutha's voice as putting him in mind of a disappointed vulture arriving too late at the dead donkey.

Terry Pratchett

I'm most at home on the stage. I was carried onstage for the first time when I was six months old.

Alan Alda

if we possess a why of life we can put up with almost any how.

Friedrich Nietzsche