There's a difference between bravery and rash stupidity.

I understood that I was inventing myself, and that I was doing this more in the way of a painter than in the way of a scientist. I could not count on precision or calculation; I could only count on intuition.

I didn't know it was possible to be successful as a writer, so I wasn't afraid to fail.

The thing we call romance is a diversion from something truer, which is life.

A tourist is an ugly human being.

People only say I’m angry because I’m black and I’m a woman.

Like father like son, like mother like daughter!