My life has been long, and believing that life loves the liver of it, I have dared to try many things, sometimes trembling, but daring still.
In Stamps the segregation was so complete that most Black children didn't really, absolutely know what whites looked like.
Hope does not take away your problems. It can lift you above them.
One of the wonderful things about Oprah: She teaches you to keep on stepping.
Don't bring negative to my door.
If I wanted to write, I had to be willing to develop a kind of concentration found mostly in people awaiting execution. I had to learn technique and surrender my ignorance.