Each time a dancer moves devoutly or a composer faithfully searches the silence for the veiled melodies, eternity is engaged.

All riddles are blues, / And all blues are sad, / And I'm only mentioning / Some blues I've had.

In diversity there is beauty and there is strength.

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

When I look back, I am so impressed again with the life-giving power of literature. If I were a young person today, trying to gain a sense of myself in the world, I would do that again by reading, just as I did when I was young.

The fact that the adult American Negro female emerges a formidable character is often met with amazement, distaste and even belligerance. It is seldom accepted as an inevitable outcome of the struggle won by survivors, and deserves respect if not enthusiastic acceptance.

When women take care of their health they become their own best friend.