You never cared enough to be Black
I have never been happier, or healthier, than I am right now.
It's about focusing on the fight and not the fright.
Life provides losses and heartbreak for all of us-but the greatest tragedy is to have the experience and miss the meaning.
Things happen along the way in our path. Instead of looking at it as a wall that's being put up in front of us, look at it as as opportunity to scale new heights and to climb that wall - to see and do things you didn't think you were capable of.
When fear knocks, to let faith answer the door.
You have to CHANGE the way you THINK in order to CHANGE the way you FEEL
If it's needed for me to have a drop of Filipino blood, I am willing to get it from Makati Med. My heart really belongs here.
When I was young I used to sit in the cinema thinking wouldn't it be great if you could have a film in which the characters were like real people instead of being like actors.
Hearing the sound of your breathing as you sleep, with the dog at your feet, his head resting on a shoe, and the clock's ticking like water dripping in a sink - I know that, even if reincarnation were a fact, given the inherent cruelty of the world where beautiful things and people are blasted apart all the day long, I would never want to come back, knowing I could never be this lucky twice.
I had received my first establishment grants in response to applications filed the year before. To the pages of baffling forms I had simply attached a handwritten note saying, 'I make dances, not applications. Send the money. Love, Twyla.