When someone shows you who they are, believe them the first time.

In so many ways, segregation shaped me, and education liberated me.

I've learned that whenever I decide something with an open heart, I usually make the right decision.

The ache for home lives in all of us, the safe place where we can go as we are and not be questioned.

You don't need another person, place or thing to make you whole. God already did that. Your job is to know it.

I'm a writer and writers either have good memories or nothing at all.

Be courageous, but not foolhardy. Walk proud as you are.