| |  | | | | | | | | | | | I do not believe that the accident of birth makes people sisters and brothers. It makes them siblings. Gives them mutuality of parentage. Sisterhood and brotherhood are conditions people have to work at. It's a serious matter. You compromise, you give, you take, you stand firm, and you're relentless...And it is an investment. Sisterhood means if you happen to be in Burma and I happen to be in San Diego and I'm married to someone who is very jealous and you're married to somebody who is very possessive, if you call me in the middle of the night, I have to come. | | Birth; Humanity | | | I don't believe the accident of birth makes people sisters or brothers. It makes them siblings. Gives them mutuality of parentage. Sisterhood and brotherhood is a condition people have to work at. | | Uncategorized | | | I don't know if I continue, even today, always liking myself. But what I learned to do many years ago was to forgive myself. It is very important for every human being to forgive herself or himself because if you live, you will make mistakes- it is inevitable. But once you do and you see the mistake, then you forgive yourself and say, 'well, if I'd known better I'd have done better,' that's all. So you say to people who you think you may have injured, 'I'm sorry,' and then you say to yourself, 'I'm sorry.' If we all hold on to the mistake, we can't see our own glory in the mirror because we have the mistake between our faces and the mirror; we can't see what we're capable of being. You can ask forgiveness of others, but in the end the real forgiveness is in one's own self. I think that young men and women are so caught by the way they see themselves. Now mind you. When a larger society sees them as unattractive, as threats, as too black or too white or too poor or too fat or too thin or too sexual or too asexual, that's rough. But you can overcome that. The real difficulty is to overcome how you think about yourself. If we don't have that we never grow, we never learn, and sure as hell we should never teach. | | Uncategorized | | | I find it interesting that the meanest life, the poorest existence, is attributed to God's will, but as human beings become more affluent, as their living standard and style begin to ascend the material scale, God descends the scale of responsibility | | God; Life; Mankind | | | I have found that among its other benefits, giving liberates the soul of the giver. | | Uncategorized | | | | | I long, as does every human being, to be at home wherever I find myself. | | Home | | | I love to see a young girl go out and grab the world by the lapels. Life's a bitch. You've got to go out and kick ass. | | Girls | | | I said, 'Don't worry about it -- I know our culture.' | | Uncategorized | | | I speak to the black experience, but I am always talking about the human condition - about what we can endure, dream, fail at, and still survive. | | Experience | | | I suggest that the great art belongs to all people, all the time--that indeed it is made for the people, by the people, to the people. | | Art; People | | | I try to live what I consider a "poetic existence." That means I take responsibility for the air I breathe and the space I take up. I try to be immediate, to be totally present for all my work. | | Appreciation; Beauty; Life; Responsibility | | | I want to see freedom and equality through my eyes and your eyes Coretta Scott King. I opened my mouth to the lord and I won't turn back, no! | | Uncategorized | | | I was thinking about that, about the journeys in the film, journey to the roots, journey to the heart. We're all on journeys. | | Uncategorized | | | I'm not going anywhere. I came here to say something, and I'm not leaving until I'm finished. | | Uncategorized | | I've learned that no matter what happens, or how bad it
seems today, life does go on, and it will be better tomorrow. I've learned that
you can tell a lot about a person by the way he/she handles these three things:
a rainy day, lost luggage, and tangled Christmas tree lights. I've learned that
regardless of your relationship with your parents, you'll miss them when they're
gone from your life. I've learned that making a living is not the same thing as
making a life. I've learned that life sometimes gives you a second chance.
I've learned that you shouldn't go through life with a catcher's mitt on both
hands; you need to be able to throw some things back. I've learned that whenever
I decide something with an open heart, I usually make the right decision. I've
learned that even when I have pains, I don't have to be one. I've learned that
every day you should reach out and touch someone. People love a warm hug, or
just a friendly pat on the back. I've learned that I still have a lot to learn.
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. | | Life; Literary; Optimism | | | 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. | | Action; Feelings; Life; Love | | | I've learned that you shouldn't go through life with a catcher's mitt on both hands; you need to be able to throw something back. | | Life | | | If one is lucky, a solitary fantasy can totally transform one million realities. | | Luck | | | If we lose love and self respect for each other, this is how we finally die. | | Uncategorized | | | | | | | |
