I married a man once and we had been married over a year before I found he preferred potatoes. I said, "I didn't know you loved potatoes." And he said that until he was about 13, he thought rice was potato seeds.

I'm a positive thinker and actor. I look at a glass; a negative person sees the glass and says: too bad it's half empty... I look at the same glass and say: Hallelujah!! It's half full!!!

Because of our routines we forget that life is an ongoing adventure.

We need to haunt the house of history and listen anew to the ancestors' wisdom.

Hope is born again in the faces of children.

Nathaniel Hawthorne once said that easy reading is damn hard writing.

There is a kind of strength that is almost frightening in Black women. It's as if a steel rod runs right through the head down to the feet.