Talent is like electricity. We don't understand electricity. We use it.

jealousy is conceived only in insecurity and must be nourished in fear.

Everybody born comes from the Creator trailing wisps of glory.

A mother's love liberates.

We need to haunt the house of history and listen anew to the ancestors' wisdom.

I've read everything Thomas Wolfe ever wrote; my brother and I memorized whole chapters of 'You Can't Go Home Again' and 'Look Homeward, Angel.'

I wasn't a pretty girl. I was six feet tall at 15, you know.