If singing was a color, it would've been the color of that chocolate.

It can be really powerful to write something when youre sad.

Stuart needs "space" and "time," as if this were physics and not a human relationship.

I look deep into her rich brown eyes and she look into mine. Law, she got old-soul eyes, like she done lived a thousand years. And I swear I see, down inside, the woman she gone grow up to be. She is tall and straight. She is proud. She got a better haircut. And she is remembering the words I put in her head. Remembering as a full-grown woman.

Ugly live up on the inside. Ugly be a hurtful, mean person.

Great books give you a feeling that you miss all day, until you finally get to crawl back inside those pages again.

I have never been more proud of the United States than I am this year. We have elected an African-American president. We have the stellar Michelle Obama setting the standard for American women. I simply cannot say it enough: look how far we've come.