I think there are things for all of us to do as long as we're here and we're healthy.

Writing is a delicious agony.

It is brave to be involved

What, what am I to do with all of this life?

I felt that I had to write. Even if I had never been published, I knew that I would go on writing, enjoying it and experiencing the challenge.

I don't like the idea of the black race being diluted out of existence. I like the idea of all of us being here.

She was afraid to suggest to him that to most people, nothing "happens." That most people merely live from day to day until they die. That, after he had been dead a year, doubtless fewer than five people would think of him oftener than once a year. That there might even come a year when no one on earth would think of him at all.