One way of preventing disease is worth fifty ways of curing it.
I had top-secret clearance and everything. I was working on a couple of projects that would keep me involved in Desert Storm. I was in the mix, which is scary.
I'm a black, gay woman. I think the only way to make the GOP hate me more is if I sent them a video of me rolling around on a pile of welfare checks.
Seriously, I don't need a gun. I'm easily annoyed. I would shoot people in my house that I invited over.
When life gives you lemons don't make lemonade, make pink lemonade. Be unique.
If you feel like there's something out there that you're supposed to be doing, if you have a passion for it, then stop wishing and just do it.
These CEOs, man. . . If you're that ruthless, you're a scary dude. I tell you, now when I walk past a little gang banger, I don't even blink. But if I see a white dude with a Wall Street Journal, I haul ass. Before I walk past the Arthur Andersen building, I cut through the projects. If you cut through the projects, you may just lose what you have on you that day. I ain't never been mugged of my whole future.
Encompass with your mercy and compassion all animals and creatures. Do not say, "this is inanimate and has no awareness. " Indeed, it does; it is you yourself who have no awareness! So let existence be as it is, and be merciful towards it with the mercifulness of the Creator in the midst of His creation.
Who can take Death's portrait? The tyrant never sat.
Just standing around looking beautiful is so boring.
Any place is sacred ground, for it can become a place of encounter with the divine Presence.