Quotes

Love is a tremendous responsibility. —Nikki Giovanni

Miracles happen all the time. We're here, aren't we? —Marilyn Nelson

the mark of a good book is it changes every time you read it —Anderson Cooper

You can't use up creativity. The more you use, the more you have. —Maya Angelou

If you don't understand yourself you don't understand anybody else. —Nikki Giovanni

All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better. —Ralph Waldo Emerson

Sometimes you have to stick around long enough for your luck to find you. —Rita, The Fosters

If there’s a book you really want to read, but it hasn’t been written yet, then you must write it. —Toni Morrison

At some point in life the world's beauty becomes enough. You don't need to photograph, paint, or even remember it. It is enough. —Toni Morrison

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. —Maya Angelou

I want AI to do my laundry and dishes so that I can do art and writing, not for AI to do my art and writing so that I can do my laundry and dishes. —Joanna Maciejewska

The value of writing doesn’t lie in the final product, but in the act itself. Each sentence we write brings us closer to understanding who we are, what we think, and what we believe. —Akindele Davies

The power of a good question is not in the answer, but in the question’s capacity to regeneratively invite more questions, and to construct lenses for examining the world — and ourselves.  —Ge Wang

Do magical things happen more often to specific people? Or are they happening all the time and some people just notice them more often? Where do they come from? Can you summon them to happen? —Mari Andrew

You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read. It was books that taught me that the things that tormented me most were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive, who had ever been alive. —James Baldwin

For what it’s worth: it’s never too late or, in my case, too early to be whoever you want to be. There’s no time limit, stop whenever you want. You can change or stay the same, there are no rules to this thing. We can make the best or the worst of it. I hope you make the best of it. And I hope you see things that startle you. I hope you feel things you never felt before. I hope you meet people with a different point of view. I hope you live a life you’re proud of. If you find that you’re not, I hope you have the courage to start all over again. —Eric Roth, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button Screenplay