Some feminists feel that a woman should never be wrong. We have a right to be wrong.

Zis and zat' when uttered by the French is considered charming, but 'dis and dat' as an Africanism is ridiculed as gross and ugly.

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

Everybody's got some sin, but if it troubles your heart you're a gentle sinner, just a good soul gone wrong.

We think of poverty as a condition simply meaning a lack of funds, no money, but when one sees fifth, sixth, and seventh generation poor, it is clear that poverty is as complicated as high finance.

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

The Black writer explains pain to those who inflict it.