“If you want, you can be a child for the rest of your life and be a great LEARNER”

“I can only motivate if you ALLOW me to motivate.”

“Even enjoying a cup of tea, with all your senses involved in it is also pure meditation.”

“The difference between what you expect and what you get is the problem.”

“The absence of criticism is not Appreciation!!!”

“You will always find someone ahead of you even if you overtake someone on the highway called LIFE”

“Some negroes lie, some are immoral, some negro men are not be trusted around women - black and white. But this is a truth that applies to the human race and to no particular race of men.”

“The only honest way to approach the question of whiteness and blackness is to start by accepting that these are arbitrary categories that were invented in the 17th and 18th century in order to just...”

“I never asked Tolstoy to write for me, a little colored girl in Lorain, Ohio. I never asked [James] Joyce not to mention Catholicism or the world of Dublin. Never. And I don't know why I should be ...”