connection Quotes

I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.

Information helps you to see that you're not alone. That there's somebody in Mississippi and somebody in Tokyo who all have wept, who've all longed and lost, who've all been happy. So the library helps you to see, not only that you are not alone, but that you're not really any different from everyone else.

I long, as does every human being, to be at home wherever I find myself.

If I'm the people's poet, then I ought to be in people's hands - and, I hope, in their heart.

I've still not written as well as I want to. I want to write so that the reader in Des Moines, Iowa, in Kowloon, China, in Cape Town, South Africa, can say, 'You know, that's the truth. I wasn't there, and I wasn't a six-foot black girl, but that's the truth.'

I could fall in love with a sumo wrestler if he told stories and made me laugh. Obviously, it would be easier if someone was African-American and lived next door and went to the same church. Because then I wouldn't have to translate.

We can learn to see each other and see ourselves in each other and recognize that human beings are more alike than we are unalike.

All great artists draw from the same resource: the human heart, which tells us that we are all more alike than we are unalike.

I've never had a dislike for men. I've been badly treated by some. But I've been loved greatly by some. I married a lot of them.

In a long meter hymn, a singer - they call it 'lays out a line.' And then the whole church joins in in repeating that line. And they form a wall of harmony so tight, you can't wedge a pin between it.