Truth is simply whatever you can bring yourself to believe.

I think women need kindness more than love. When one human being is kind to another, it's a very deep matter.

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

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

It's a poor kind of man that won't fight for his own freedom.

The twisted circumstances under which we live is grist for the writing mill, the loving, hating and discovering, finding new handles for old pitchers . . .

The Black writer explains pain to those who inflict it.