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

Truth is simply whatever you can bring yourself to believe.

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.

The Black writer explains pain to those who inflict it.

I am lonesome so regular it's like a job I gotta report to every day.

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

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