There are some nights when sleep plays coy, aloof and disdainful. And all the wiles that I employ to win its service to my side are useless as wounded pride, and much more painful.

My mother said I must always be intolerant of ignorance but understanding of illiteracy. That some people, unable to go to school, were more educated and more intelligent than college professors.

I couldn't tell fact from fiction, Or if the dream was true My only sure prediction In this world was you. I'd touch your features inchly. Beard love and dared the cost, The sented spiel reeled me unreal And I found my senses lost.

Being free is being able to accept people for what they are, and not try to understand all they are or be what they are.

Any book that helps a child to form a habit of reading, to make reading one of his deep and continuing needs, is good for him.

Being a woman is hard work.

I will write on the pages of history what I want them to say. I will be myself. I will speak my own name.