What other people label or might try to call failure, I have learned is just God's way of pointing you in a new direction

You cannot continue to succeed in the world or have a fulfilling life in the world unless you choose to use your life in the service somehow to others and give back what you have been given. That's how you keep it. That's how you get it. That's how you grow it.

Getting my library card was like citizenship; it was like American citizenship.

Your journey begins with a choice to get up, step out, and live fully

I hear people say all the time, "I'm not really religious, but I consider myself spiritual." I definitely have always been spiritual, being raised by my grandmother on that little acre in Mississippi, indoctrinated, born into the church and the ways of the church.

I don't yell at people, I don't mistreat people. I don't talk down to people, so no one else in this building, in this vicinity, has the right to do it.

I tried to empty myself and let the spirit of Sethe inhabit me.