Tomorrow exists even though I may not exist in it.

I can't get upset about 'offensive to women' or 'offensive to blacks' or 'offensive to Native Americans' or 'offensive to Jews' ... Offend! I can't get worked up about it. Offend!

What distinguished my life from my brother's is that my mother didn't like me. When I became a woman, I seemed to repel her.

When I write a book, I hope to be beyond mortal by the time I'm finished.

A psychiatrist once asked me to draw a picture of my family. This is when I was a member of a family of four. I drew the three other people in the family first, bodies and heads. And then, last, I began to draw myself - but gave up.

I didn't really understand racism because I grew up in an all-black society, so I didn't see how it was possible not to like me!

Every time I end a book, I look down at myself.