That's how women are, always studyin' each other and wonderin' how they look up 'gainst the next.

Thoughts can hurt like real pain.

I'm independent as a hog on ice and a hog on ice is dead, cold, well-preserved and don't need a mother'grabbin, thing.

Life is just a short walk from the cradle to the grave - and it sure behooves us to be kind to one another along the way.

I am lonesome so regular it's like a job I gotta report to every day.

I believe racism has killed more people than speed, heroin, or cancer, and will continue to kill until it is no more.

writing is a labor of love and also an act of defiance, a way to light a candle in a gale wind.