Writing saved me from the sin and inconvenience of violence.

What a burden to think one is conceived in sin rather than in pleasure; that one is born into evil rather than into joy.

She thought of how precious it was to be able to know another person over many years. There was incomparable richness in it.

What hurts the most is being misunderstood. They tell me that's an Aquarian trait - that that's the thing we don't like.

I almost never do anything for Black History Month, because I feel it's just another way to separate us.

I am not convinced that men and women were ever meant to share the same house, though some people can do it beautifully.

The animals of the world exist for their own reasons. They were not made for humans any more than black people were made for white, or women created for men.