Would you deny your son or your daughter the ecstasy of finding someone to love?

I'm very blessed that I have a healthy temper. I can become quite angry and burning in anger, but I have never been bitter. Bitterness is a corrosive, terrible acid. It just eats you and makes you sick.

Always in the black spirituals there's that promise that things are going to be better, by and by.

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

Making a decision to write was a lot like deciding to jump into a frozen lake.

It's still scary every time I go back to the past. Each morning, my heart catches. When I get there, I remember how the light was, where the draft was coming from, what odors were in the air. When I write, I get all the weeping out.

While the rest of the world has been improving technology, Ghana has been improving the quality of man's humanity to man.