To take a few nouns, and a few pronouns, and adverbs and adjectives, and put them together, ball them up, and throw them against the wall to make them bounce. That's what Norman Mailer did. That's what James Baldwin did, and Joan Didion did, and that's what I do - that's what I mean to do.

Our stories come from our lives and from the playwright's pen, the mind of the actor, the roles we create, the artistry of life itself and the quest for peace.

Whining lets the brute know there's a victim for him in the neighborhood!

Black women have not historically stood in the pulpit, but that doesn't undermine the fact that they built the churches and maintain the pulpits.

Loving someone liberates the lover as well as the beloved. And that kind of love comes with age.

I'm convinced of this: Good done anywhere is good done everywhere.

Life offers us tickets to places which we have not knowingly asked for.