The infinite faith I have in people's ability to understand anything that makes sense has always been justified, finally, by their behavior.

Clearly older women and especially older women who have led an active life or elder women who successfully maneuver through their own family life have so much to teach us about sharing, patience, and wisdom.

As you know from school, it's when you have not prepared for the test that you have the fear of failing. And if you have prepared, even if you fail, you've done your best.

For in the end, freedom is a personal and lonely battle and one faces down fears of today so that those of tomorrow might be engaged.

Fiction is such a world of freedom, it's wonderful. If you want someone to fly, they can fly.

No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow.

To me, the black black woman is our essential mother, the blacker she is the more us she is and to see the hatred that is turned on her is enough to make me despair, almost entirely, of our future as a people.

In search of my mother's garden, I found my own.

I think it pisses God off if you walk by the color purple in a field somewhere and don't notice it.

Politically, the world is so confused right now - there's so much suffering caused by various movements by various parties and people in power in government.