My heart hurt so much I can't believe it. How can it keep beating, feeling like this?

'Thank you' is the best prayer that anyone could say. I say that one a lot. Thank you expresses extreme gratitude, humility, understanding.

I think that wealthy white people would like to have a country that resembles the Fifties, when all the minorities were tucked away in ghettos and paid in very low wages but on the surface it was very bright and shiny and free and the rest of the world would look on it longingly.

Writing saved me from the sin and inconvenience of violence.

Love likes to extend itself. If you receive it in a book - or however you get it - then your duty is to extend it beyond.

As we talked of freedom and justice one day for all, we sat down to steaks. I am eating misery, I thought, as I took the first bite. And spit it out.

I'm the kind of woman that likes to enjoy herselves in peace.