I think tolerance and acceptance and love is something that feeds every community.

I gave in, and admitted that God was God.

It’s fun to be hopelessly in love. It’s dangerous, but it’s fun.

A man has a tendency to accept you the way you are, while most women immediately start to pick flaws and want to change you.

Here’s the thing: every office I’ve run for I was the first to win. First person of color. First woman. First woman of color. Every time.

I made my first white women friends in college; they loved me and were loyal to our friendship, but I understood, as they did, that they were white women and that whiteness mattered.

I don’t want to just revolve. I want to evolve. As a man, as a human, as a father, as a lover.

By taking a second wife he pays the highest compliment to the first, by showing that she made him so happy as a married man, that he wishes to be so a second time.

If you love somebody, let them go, for if they return, they were always yours. And if they don’t, they never were.

And ever has it been known that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation.

We inhabit a universe that is characterized by diversity.

There is always something ridiculous about the emotions of people whom one has ceased to love.

I think that everybody needs four things in life. Everybody needs something to do regardless of age. Everybody needs someone to love. Everybody needs something to hope for, and, of course, everybody needs someone to believe in.

Life in abundance comes only through great love.

I like everything. Boyish girls, girlish boys, the heavy and the skinny. Which is a problem when I’m walking down the street.

If I love you, I show you I love you every day. Little things, big things.

Home is the place where, when you have to go there, they have to take you in.

People say that about me, that I apparently buy houses near every boy I like – that’s a thing that I apparently do. If I like you I will apparently buy up the real-estate market just to freak you out so you leave me.

In my neighborhood, when you’ve got something to say to a guy, you look him in the eye and you say it to him.

If one by one we counted people out For the least sin, it wouldn’t take us long To get so we had no one left to live with. For to be social is to be forgiving.

You can’t buy love, but you can pay heavily for it.

If you love those who love you, what credit is that to you? For even sinners love those who love them. And if you do good to those who do good to you, what credit is that to you? For even sinners do the same.

No, we don’t own our children. Our parental privilege is to love them, to lead them, and to let them go.

Friends accept you the way you are.

I know for sure that loves saves me and that it is here to save us all.

The diversity of India, of our civilization, is actually a thing of beauty, which is something we are extremely proud of.

At the heart of every being lies creation’s dream of a principle that will one day give organic form to its fragmented treasures. God is unity.

If a child from an Amazonian hunter-gatherer tribe comes to Boston, is raised in Boston, that child will be indistinguishable in language capacities from my children growing up here, and vice versa.

Sensual love deceives one as to the nature of heavenly love; it could not do so alone, but since it unconsciously has the element of heavenly love within it, it can do so.

On the other hand, you have different fingers.

We are a nation founded as a rebuke to tyranny. A nation of revolutionaries who refused sovereign reign from afar. Hear me – we’re a nation that says give us your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free. A nation built on our differences, guided by the belief that we’re all created equal.

The way a team plays as a whole determines its success. You may have the greatest bunch of individual stars in the world, but if they don’t play together, the club won’t be worth a dime.

It’s a tragedy, in a way, that Americans are brought up to think that they cannot feel for other people and other beings just because they are different. They think they’re different. It’s very limiting.

People always fear change. People feared electricity when it was invented, didn’t they? People feared coal, they feared gas-powered engines… There will always be ignorance, and ignorance leads to fear. But with time, people will come to accept their silicon masters.

People think, because we’re young, we aren’t complex, but that’s not true. We deal with life and love and broken hearts in the same way a woman a few years older might.

Creativity has got to start with humanity and when you’re a human being, you feel, you suffer. You’re gay, you’re sick, you’re nervous or whatever.

Let us touch the dying, the poor, the lonely and the unwanted according to the graces we have received and let us not be ashamed or slow to do the humble work.

If you want to give up the admiration of thousands of men for the distain of one, go ahead, get married.

Chemistry can be a good and bad thing. Chemistry is good when you make love with it. Chemistry is bad when you make crack with it.

Love does not dominate; it cultivates.

When I walk with you I feel as if I had a flower in my buttonhole.

All fat women look the same; they all look 42.

Love and doubt have never been on speaking terms.

A black person grows up in this country – and in many places – knowing that racism will be as familiar as salt to the tongue. Also, it can be as dangerous as too much salt. I think that you must struggle for betterment for yourself and for everyone.

If you can feel that Mother Earth is in you, and you are Mother Earth, then you are not any longer afraid to die because the earth is not dying. Like a wave appears and disappears and appears again.

Be nice to the whites, they need you to rediscover their humanity.

I love sleep; it’s my favorite.

I am getting to the point where the only love worth being in is the love worth singing about.

No man, who continues to add something to the material, intellectual and moral well-being of the place in which he lives, is left long without proper reward.

You know how big love is? Love is big. love can hold anger; love can even hold hatred.

I think there’s more women that watch me than men, but I don’t look at myself as just a minister to women. My ministry began that way, but I really feel like the Word of God is for everybody.

Kindness in women, not their beauteous looks, shall win my love.

As much as I love the Western genre, I figured if I kept doing those, I’d eventually run out of steam on that, and that would’ve been the end of it.

We can continue to learn generation after generation and now is time to begin to learn how to love in a non-discriminatory way because we are intelligent enough, but we are not loving enough as a species.

Bad food is made without pride, by cooks who have no pride, and no love. Bad food is made by chefs who are indifferent, or who are trying to be everything to everybody, who are trying to please everyone… Bad food is fake food… food that shows fear and lack of confidence in people’s ability to discern or to make decisions about their lives.

My father wasn’t a cruel man. And I loved him. But he was a pretty tough character. His own father was even tougher – one of those Victorians, hard as iron – but my dad was tough enough.

I’m very proud to be black, but black is not all I am. That’s my cultural historical background, my genetic makeup, but it’s not all of who I am nor is it the basis from which I answer every question.

I think what’s important is for us to decipher what is honest and what is dishonest and be accepting of those things and not operating from fear.

We must have government that builds stamina into communities and men. That makes men instead of mendicants.

I have learned not to worry about love; but to honor its coming with all my heart.

I wish people would love everybody else the way they love me. It would be a better world.