'Thank you' is the best prayer that anyone could say.

Never be the only one, except, possibly, in your own home.

I love the natural world - it comes from my culture, which grew out of a people enslaved.

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

I'm one in what I do and what I say and what I believe.

Womanist is to feminist as purple is to lavender.

I think the War on Terror is really absurd, especially coming from a country that is founded on terrorism.