Politicians must set their aims for the high ground and according to our various leanings, Democratic, Republican, Independent, we will follow. Politicians must be told if they continue to sink into the mud of obscenity, they will proceed alone.

You only are free when you realize you belong no place - you belong every place - no place at all. The price is high. The reward is great.

If you have done the best you can do and if you have gotten all you could extract from something, you have given all you had to give, then the time has come when you can do no more than say thank you and move on.

I'm happy to be a writer - of prose, poetry, every kind of writing. Every person in the world who isn't a recluse, hermit or mute uses words. I know of no other art form that we always use.

I am the dream and the hope of the slave

Each time a woman stands up for herself, without knowing it possibly, without claiming it, she stands up for all women.

I've learned that regardless of your relationship with your parents, you'll miss them when they're gone from your life.