Children are not created fully equipped with such values as courage, compassion, integrity, and insights into the motives and needs of themselves and of others.
I think leaders are incapable of the strength that passive resistance entails.
Her beauty cannot be measured with standards of a colonized mind
Looking at the media today, I'm quite ashamed of myself, of things I've participated in. Everything is marketed to sex and gossip and it's just a shame that those are the things at the forefront, on people's minds, those are the things that make you popular, what you have on or how little you have on and it has nothing to do with music, nothing to do with sports it has nothing to do with the things so many communities put their faith in. It's just a sad place to be.
Music is like a lover that I can't commit to, but I seem to always find myself in bed with.
I dabble in the jazz world, which is male-dominated. If you had two women playing together, it became a shtick. It becomes a "girl group," and it has to be something cutesy. That's hard to contend with.
Once you encounter people who are really testing the limits of kindness, that's when you start to build up a shield and close yourself down.
When I ask for a water cress sandwich, I do not mean a loaf with a field in the middle of it.
Everybody's after a new morning. What do we have to run up and salute tomorrow?
I was walking along a path with two friends – the sun was setting – suddenly the sky turned blood red – I paused, feeling exhausted, and leaned on the fence – there was blood and tongues of fire above the blue-black fjord and the city – my friends walked on, and I stood there trembling with anxiety – and I sensed an infinite scream passing through nature.
The opposite of joy is not sorrow. It is unbelief.