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

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.

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.

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

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

I'm fascinated by the awful, awful things that human beings do to each other.