Where did we get the idea of insultin' folks by pointin' out their age? ... It seems that we think youth is some special accomplishment brought about by the individual himself!

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.

Like snowflakes, the human pattern is never cast twice. We are uncommonly and marvelously intricate in thought and action, our problems are most complex and, too often, silently borne.

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 was so mad you could have boiled a pot of water on my head.

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