Many people are aware that we are in peril and that there is no trustworthy leadership.

Don't wait around for other people to be happy for you. Any happiness you get you've got to make yourself.

I don’t need a certain number of friends, just a number of friends I can be certain of.

Whoever you are, whatever you are, start with that, whether salt of the earth or only white sugar.

I am an expression of the divine, just like a peach is, just like a fish is. I have a right to be this way...I can't apologize for that, nor can I change it, nor do I want to... We will never have to be other than who we are in order to be successful...We realize that we are as ourselves unlimited and our experiences valid. It is for the rest of the world to recognize this, if they choose.

I could never live happily in Africa-or anywhere else-until I could live freely in Mississippi.

It is healthier, in any case, to write for the adults one's children will become than for the children one's 'mature' critics often are.