The earth is wise. It has given itself into the keeping of all, and all are therefore accountable.

I feel a little peculiar around the children. For one thing, they grown. And I see they think me and Nettie and Shug and Albert and Samuel and Harpo and Sofia and Jack and Odessa real old and don't know much what going on. But I don't think us feel old at all. And us so happy. Matter of fact, I think this the youngest us ever felt.

The artist...is the voice of the people.

I write not only what I want to read...I write all the things I should have been able to read.

I am not lesbian, I am not bisexual, I am not straight. I am just curious

Expect nothing. Live frugally on surprise.

Some periods of our growth are so confusing that we don't even recognize that growth is happening...Those long periods when something inside ourselves seems to be waiting, holding its breath, unsure about what the next step should be, eventually become the periods we wait for, for it is in those periods that we realize that we are being prepared for the next phase of our life and that, in all probability, a new level of the personality is about to be revealed.