Beneath the skin, beyond the differing features and into the true heart of being, fundamentally, we are more alike, my friend, than we are unalike.

And if a person is religious, I think it's good, it helps you a bit. But if you're not, at least you can have the sense that there is a condition inside you which looks at the stars with amazement and awe.

I'm a feminist. I've been a female for a long time now. It'd be stupid not to be on my own side.

Listen carefully to what country people call mother wit. In those homely sayings are couched the collective wisdom of generations.

At our best, we are all teachers

The best comfort food will always be greens, cornbread, and fried chicken.

Until recently each generation found it more expedient to plead guilty to the charge of being young and ignorant, easier to take the punishment meted out by the older generation (which had itself confessed to the same crime short years before). The command to grow up at once was more bearable than the faceless horror of wavering purpose, which was youth.