02/29/08

If there is a book that you want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, you must be the one to write it. -Toni Morrison

02/27/08

My poetry, I think, has become the way of my giving out what music is within me. -Countee Cullen

02/26/08

Writing saved me from the sin and inconvenience of violence. -Alice Walker

02/21/08

Knowledge is the key that unlocks all the doors. You can be green-skinned with yellow polka dots and come from Mars, but if you have knowledge that people need, instead of beating you, they'll beat a path to your door. -Dr. Ben Carson

02/20/08

To get where you want to go you can't only do what you like. -Peter Abrahams

02/19/08

Knowledge is not power, it is only potential power that becomes real through use. -Dorothy Riley

02/14/08

The tragedy in life doesn't lie in not reaching your goal. The tragedy lies in having no goal to reach. -Benjamin E. Mays

02/12/08

A man can make what he wants of himself if he truly believes that he must be ready for hard work and many heartbreaks. -Thurgood Marshall

02/11/08

It's not the load that breaks you down, it's the way you carry it. -Lena Horne

02/08/07

Sometimes being a friend means mastering the art of timing. There is a time for silence. A time to let go and allow people to hurl themselves into their own destiny. And a time to prepare to pick up the pieces when it's all over. -Octavia Butler

02/06/08

It is better to have dreamed a thousand dreams that never were than never to have dreamed at all. -Alexander Pushkin

02/05/08

I never wanted to be famous. I only wanted to be great. -Ray Charles

02/04/08

Luck is where opportunity meets preparation. -Denzel Washington

02/01/08

I have discovered in life that there are ways of getting almost anywhere you want to go, if you really want to go. -Langston Hughes