“We learn to make a shell for ourselves when we are young and then spend the rest of our lives hoping for someone to reach inside and touch us. Just touch usanything more than that would be too much...”

“What's more important than who's going to be the first black manager is who's going to be the first black sports editor of the New York Times.”

“Most people have a harder time letting themselves love than finding someone to love them.”

“I tried to treat them like me and some of them weren't.”

“I tried to treat them like me and some of them weren't.”

“He told me he couldn't wait for the basketball season to end, so he could go back to baseball and get out of shape.”

“It is worse than useless to do things halfway Bee, for then you think the work is done, but someone must come behind you later to do it all over again. Even if you must work much harder and get les...”

“Youre worth ever bead of sweat and every groan of frustration. Youre worth the work, youre worth the wait, youre worth everything I have to give you. I moved closer, so our foreheads were pressed t...”

“The truest form of love is how you behave toward someone, not how you feel about them.”

“Yes, I was infatuated with you: I am still. No one has ever heightened such a keen capacity of physical sensation in me. I cut you out because I couldn't stand being a passing fancy. Before I give ...”

“Throw your dreams into space like a kite, and you do not know what it will bring back, a new life, a new friend, a new love, a new country.”

“By embracing your subconscious, you gain a different way of seeing and experiencingan expanded perception that opens a doorway, not only to lucid dreams, but also to the mythic dimension. As in lu...”

“Give women the right opportunities and they are capable of everything.”

“There are times when you feel that everything is kind of mixed up and crazily messy but it changes when you look at it positively and search for opportunities. The sun was always there only you wer...”

“Patience is the path to opportunities. We gain patience through prayer and meditation. Within that vein, we never consider ourselves having failed.”