Abortion, for many women, is more than an experience of suffering beyond anything most men will ever know, it is an act of mercy, and an act of self-defense.

This could be our revolution: to love what is plentiful as much as what's scarce.

It's so clear that you have to cherish everyone. I think that's what I get from these older black women, that every soul is to be cherished, that every flower Is to bloom.

Sometimes, reading a blog, which I do infrequently, I see that generations of Americans have been wilfully crippled, and can no longer spell or write a sentence.

How sad now never to see men holding hands, while everywhere one looks they are holding guns.

Look closely at the present you are constructing: it should look like the future you are dreaming.

I'm not being disrespectful of the medium; it's just not as important as the work that I actually do [books].