Love stretches your heart and makes you big inside.

When I was about eight, I decided that the most wonderful thing, next to a human being, was a book.

Now when you hates you shrinks up inside and gets littler and you squeezes your heart tight and you stays so mad with peoples you feels sick all the time like you needs the doctor.

A writer needs certain conditions in which to work and create art. She needs a piece of time; a peace of mind; a quiet place; and a private life.

Racism is so extreme and so pervasive in our American society that no black individual lives in an atmosphere of freedom.

Friends and good manners will carry you where money won't go.

The Word of fire burns today On the lips of our prophets in an evil age.