If one is lucky, a solitary fantasy can totally transform one million realities.

Life loves the liver of it. You must live and life will be good to you.

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

Shakespeare must be a black girl.

Among other things, I'm thinking "I'm a child of God." That's amazing. And "I'm not only a child of God, but God loves me." The hardest part for me is to realize that while God loves me, and I am a child of God, I have to see the bigot and the brute and the rapist, and whether he or she knows it or not, I have to know that that person is a child of God. That is part of the responsibility - and it's hard.

I answer the heroic question, 'Death, where is thy sting?' with 'It is in my heart and mind and memories.

My mother is so full of joy and life. I am her child. And that is better than being the child of anyone else in the world.