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

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.

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

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

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

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

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.