We writers - we're the snowflakes of the literary world. We each have our own shape.

Odinary people don't have a feeling of being loved by the people who manage to get into positions of leadership. They get in there, they make a lot of money, and then they play games with us.

I see children, all children, as humanity's most precious resource, because it will be to them that the care of the planet will always be left.

It's almost unbelievable where we are as a planet because people have been so afraid of rocking the boat, of putting forth what they really believe, and standing with people who need to be stood with.

All my life I had to fight. I had to fight my daddy. I had to fight my uncles. I had to fight my brothers. Girl, child ain't safe in a family of men, but I ain't never thought I had to fight in my own house. I loves Harpo. God knows I do. But I'll kill him dead before I let him beat me.

I don't focus on criticism. I prefer to praise people and the world, rather than criticize them and it.

The more I wonder, the more I love.