And realizing there is no such thing as the Black experience. Time and events allow for change on both sides.

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

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

Some truth has no nourishment in it.

your soul is an inner something that is another you and hardly anybody knows what it's really thinkin' except you.

Writers are encouraged to "keep 'em laughing" and complain "with good humor" in order to "win" allies. The joke is always on ourselves.

"The good old days." The only good days are ahead.