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.

We must be warriors in the struggle against ignorance

Try, start always at home. This is my encouragement to all writers, start at home. All virtues and vices begin at home, and then spread abroad.

Living well is an art that can be developed: a love of life and ability to take great pleasure from small offerings and assurance that the world owes you nothing and that every gift is exactly that, a gift.

I write because I am a Black woman, listening attentively to her people.

When we cast our bread upon the waters we can presume that someone downstream whose face we will never know will benefit from our action, as we who are downstream from another will profit from the grantor's gift.

Freedom is never free.