The truth will lead me to all.

There were people who went to sleep last night, poor and rich and white and black, but they will never wake again. And those dead folks would give anything at all for just five minutes of this weather or ten minutes of plowing. So you watch yourself about complaining. What you're supposed to do when you don't like a thing is change it. If you can't change it, change the way you think about it.

All riddles are blues, / And all blues are sad, / And I'm only mentioning / Some blues I've had.

I want to be representative of my race-the human race. I have a chance to show how kind we can be, how intelligent and generous we can be.

I would welcome a friendship with Lynne Hinton. I would welcome an invitation to sit down at her table, but mostly I would welcome her next book.

But from a distance. I would have left you whole and wholly for the delectation of those who wanted more and cared less.

I believe talent is like electricity. We don't understand electricity. We use it. You can plug into it and light up a lamp, keep a heart pump going, light a cathedral, or you can electrocute a person with it. Electricity will do all that. It makes no judgment. I think talent is like that. I believe every person is born with talent.