I only hope to do well enough before I die to have a house as big as my rich Uncle Ed and Aunt Carole.

Some things don’t mix. Some things don’t mix at all, but sometimes in life you have to take the risk.

There is no teacher more discriminating or transforming than loss.

Of the Yamacraw children, I can say little. I don't think I changed the quality of their lives significantly or altered the inexorable fact that they were imprisoned by the very circumstance of their birth.

Love's action. It isn't talk and it never has been.

Good coaching is good teaching and nothing else.

We children sat transfixed before that moon our mother had called forth from the waters. When the moon had reached its deepest silver, my sister, Savannah, though only three, cried aloud to our mother, to Luke and me, to the river and the moon, "Oh, Mama, do it again!" And I had my earliest memory.