Time is the element that controls the consciousness, the very being of the people.

A tourist is an ugly human being.

The people who invented race, who grouped us together as "black," were inventing and categorizing their ability to do something vicious and wrong.

Race as a subject only comes about because of what I look like. If I say something truthfully, people say "Oh, she's so angry." If I write about a married person who lives in Vermont, it becomes "Oh, she's autobiographical."

I love planting. I love digging holes, putting plants in, tapping them in. And I love weeding, but I don't like tidying up the garden afterwards.

Children like their mothers especially to be standing still and watching them, even if they are sleeping. At least that's how I felt. There's nothing wrong with the self-interest of children; it's just the way they are.

None of us seem to think that we should draw a line under what would be a satisfactory amount of wealth.