All God's children need traveling shoes.

I believe that quality level is determined primarily by the actual design of the product itself, not by quality control in the production process.

I am grateful to be a woman. I must have done something great in another life.

Black people comprehend the South. We understand its weight. It has rested on our backs... I knew that my heart would break if ever I put my foot down on that soil, moist, still, with old hurts. I had to face the fear/loathing at its source or it would consume me whole.

Every person needs to take one day away. A day in which one consciously separates the past from the future.

Even here in America, we felt the cool, refreshing breeze of freedom when Nelson Mandela took the seat of Presidency in his country where formerly he was not even allowed to vote. We were enlarged by tears of pride as we saw Nelson Mandela's former prison guards invited, courteously, by him to watch from the front rows his inauguration.

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.