I'm a descendant of someone bought and sold, and brought in 1619 in what was to become the United States.

Prepare yourself so that you can be a rainbow in somebody else's cloud.

I don't think there's such a thing as autobiographical fiction. If I say it happened, it happened, even if only in my mind.

You can't forgive without loving. And I don't mean sentimentality. I don't mean mush. I mean having enough courage to stand up and say, 'I forgive. I'm finished with it.'

I'm considered wise, and sometimes I see myself as knowing. Most of the time, I see myself as wanting to know. And I see myself as a very interested person. I've never been bored in my life.

I think Clinton, after getting into office and into Washington, was shocked at being bludgeoned. So he spent time trying to be all things to all people - one way guaranteed not to be successful or respected in a lion's den. You can't just play around with all those big cats - you've got to take somebody on.

[Librarians] study their field with as much determination and as much delight as open-heart surgeons.