I don't think there's such a thing as autobiographical fiction. If I say it happened, it happened, even if only in my mind.

Anger is like fire. It burns all clean.

Talent is like electricity. We don't understand electricity. We use it.

Each of us has that right, that possibility, to invent ourselves daily. If a person does not invent herself, she will be invented. So, to be bodacious enough to invent ourselves is wise.

My great blessing is my son, but I have daughters. I have white ones and Black ones and fat ones and thin ones and pretty ones and plain. I have gay ones and straight. I have daughters. I have Asian ones, I have Jewish ones, I have Muslim ones.

You may not remember what a person said to you, you may not remember what a person did to you, but you will never forget how a person made you feel!

Effective action is always unjust.