When you little, you only get asked two questions, what’s your name and how old you is, so you better get em right.

Having a separate bathroom for the black domestic was just the way things were done. It had faded out in new homes by the time the '70s and '80s rolled up.

I always thought insanity would be a dark, bitter feeling, but it is drenching and delicious if you really roll around in it.

All my life I'd been told what to believe about politics, coloreds, being a girl. But with Constantine's thumb pressed in my hand, I realized I actually had a choice in what I could believe.

That's the way prayer do. It's like electricity, it keeps things going.

I'd cry, if only I had the time to do it.

Who knew paper and ink could be so vicious