A gift - be it a present, a kind word or a job done with care and love - explains itself!... and if receivin' it embarrasses you, it's because your 'thanks box' is warped.

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

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

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

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

It becomes almost second nature to be on guard against the creative pattern of our own thought.

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