A woman, no matter the age, is always learning, always becoming. But a man . . . stops learning at fourteen or so.

We are all worthy of one another.

Until I can read a story physically, with the eyes, it doesn't seem to exist for me.

Calvin had long been uneasy in his own person and so lived to put everyone else at ease.

At first I read mostly books by Southern authors - black and white - because almost all the people I knew were born and raised in the South, starting with my mother. I remember I got a lot of Erskine Caldwell.

The hitter can never be the judge. Only the receiver of the blow can tell you how hard it was, whether it would kill a man or make a baby just yawn.

A woman, no matter the age, is always learning, always becoming. But a man . . . stops learning at fourteen or so.