Always in the black spirituals there's that promise that things are going to be better, by and by.

I do not think of myself as unusually creative. I think we all come from the creator, each human being streaming with the glory. So each one of us is creative.

I've learned that you can tell a lot about a person by the way he/she handles these three things: a rainy day, lost luggage and tangled Christmas tree lights. I've learned that making a 'living' is not the same thing as 'making a life'. I've learned that whenever I decide something with an open heart, I usually make the right decision. I've learned that you shouldn't go through life with a catcher's mitt on both hands; you need to be able to throw some things back.

History, despite its wrenching pain, cannot be unlived, but if faced with courage, need not be lived again.

When I write, I tend to twist my hair. Something for my small mind to do, I guess.

When we know better, we do better.

We are not our brother’s keeper we are our brother and we are our sister. We must look past complexion and see community.