Books are meat and medicine and flame and flight and flower steel, stitch, cloud and clout, and drumbeats on the air.

She was learning to love moments. To love moments for themselves.

Don't let anyone call you a minority if you're black or Hispanic or belong to some other ethnic group. You're not less than anybody else.

We don't ask a flower any special reason for its existence. We just look at it and are able to accept it as being something different from ourselves.

First fight. Then fiddle.

When you use the term minority or minorities in reference to people, you're telling them that they're less than somebody else.

Books are meat and medicine and flame and flight and flower steel, stitch, cloud and clout, and drumbeats on the air.