Photographers direct the eye toward a particular object. We who write, one hopes, are directing the heart and the soul.
I appreciate and enjoy my age.
I prefer her [Nina Simone's] jazz period much more so than her folk period.
I'm an old storyteller. I tell the story. It's about the story.
Everybody that loves freedom loves Harriet Tubman because she was determined not only to be free, but to make free as many people as she could.
School should be eleven months of the year.