A person is the product of their dreams. So make sure to dream great dreams. And then try to live your dream.

When I look back, I am so impressed again with the life-giving power of literature.

My grandmother told me that every good thing I do helps some human being in the world. I believed her 50 years ago and still do.

Every day offers you 10,000 reasons to cry, but if you can find just one reason to laugh then you will be all right.

If growing up is painful for the Southern Black girl, being aware of her displacement is the rust on the razor that threatens the throat. It is an unnecessary insult.

We are growing up. We are growing up! Out of the idiocies - the ignorances of racism and sexism and ageism and all those ignorances.

Nothing will work unless you do.