If you can stand to wait 24 hours before you decide the fate of what you have written - either good or bad - you're more likely to see that invisible thing that is invisible for the first few days in any new writing. We just can't know what all is in a sentence until there are several sentences to follow it. Pages of writing need more pages in order to be known, chapters need more chapters.

If I had had me for a student I would have thrown me out of class immediately.

The thing that really struck me when I went to junior high was class. I grew up on a pretty poor street, but the school district I was in included some fine neighborhoods - so I got to know a couple of the kids from those places and went to their houses and experienced such culture shock.

Love will make a way out of no way

The minute you understand racism, you're responsible for being racist. It's like eating from the tree of knowledge.

When we finish a book, why do we hold it in both hands and gaze at it as if it were somehow alive?

You may be a lady but you are still the man!