"There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you."
Truth
"The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don't have any."
Power
"In order to see, you have to stop being afraid to look."
Courage
"Don't wait around for other people to be happy for you. Any happiness you get you've got to make yourself."
Happiness
"Hard times require furious dancing."
"It is not our differences that divide us. It is our inability to recognize, accept, and celebrate those differences."
Peace
"Anything we love can be saved."
Love
"You cannot mistreat what you do not feel you own."
Justice
"The fact that I am a woman does not make me a different kind of Christian, but the fact that I am a Christian does make me a different kind of woman."
Faith
"Greed has taken the place of leadership."
Leadership
"I think it pisses God off if you walk by the color purple in a field somewhere and don't notice it."
Beauty
"The world will not change if we do not change ourselves."
Change
"Wherever I travel, hate never leaves me."
Freedom
"Every act of rebellion proclaims an alternative is possible."
Hope
"Writing saved me from the sin and stagnation of despair."
Creativity
"I am determined to love all of humanity, even when it's unlovable."
Kindness
"The animals of the world exist for their own reasons."
Nature
"Doing the work you love is the cornerstone of having abundance in your life."
Work
"It is during the most challenging times that we are growing."
Perseverance
"You must be willing to question everything."
Knowledge
"Never be the only one, except possibly in your dreams."
Dreams
"I love myself when I am laughing."
Humor
"The more I wonder, the more I love."
Imagination
"Expectation is the ground of disappointment."
Wisdom
"Tell the truth or at least, don't lie."
Truth
"I have learned not to worry about love, but to honor it instead."
Relationships
"Separation from my father was not good for me."
Family
"I believe that the truth about any subject only comes when all sides of the story are put together."
Justice
"In the old days, we were not allowed to know our surnames, where we had come from, what tribe we were from."
History
"The gift of loneliness is sometimes a radical vision of society or one's people that has to be preserved."
Solitude