I wash my hands, wonder how an awful day could turn even worse. It seems like at some point you'd just run out of awful.

No one tells us, girls who don't go on dates, that remembering can be almost as good as what actually happens.

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

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.

Why don't we just build you an house outside Hilly?

I used to believe in em (lines). I don't anymore. They in our heads. Lines between black and white ain't there neither. Some folks just made those up, long time ago. And that go for the white trash and the so-ciety ladies too.

I'm sorry, but were you dropped on your head as an infant?