Violence is like money in the bank; it's only helpful if you don't have to use it.

I am a huge fan of the Black woman. I never hesitate to recommend her when times are bad or things go wrong.

Baseball is already the world's most tranquil sport. It is probably the only active sport where you are not seriously required to be alive to play.

I hope that, reading 'Rosa,' people will remember their own family and friends and talk about what they did and did not do.

Everything will change. The only question is growing up or decaying.

Libraries...house our dreams.

I had a really nice childhood; I had great parents. I earned my allowance by washing dishes, and in the summer I earned my allowance by working in daddy's garden.