To be able to give away riches is mandatory if you wish to possess them. This is the only way that you will be truly rich.
Readers transform a library from a mausoleum into many theaters.
Clothes make a statement. Costumes tell a story.
Forgiveness is like faith. You have to keep reviving it.
Reading gives us someplace to go when we have to stay where we are.
Faith moves mountains, but you have to keep pushing while you are praying.
Imagination has rules, but we can only guess what they are.
Works of art are never finished, just stopped.
It's better to be a lion for a day than a sheep all your life.
Change is inevitable, and the disruption it causes often brings both inconvenience and opportunity.
For the rest of their lives, [black men] can be denied the right to vote, automatically excluded from juries, and legally discriminated against in employment, housing, access to education and public benefits. So many of the old forms of discrimination that we supposedly left behind during the Jim Crow era are suddenly legal again once you've been branded a felon.