You have to learn how to be married. You have to learn to love somebody.

God, make me so uncomfortable that I will do the very thing I fear.

The greatest gift is not being afraid to question.

My dream was I was going to be an actor. Racism occurred to me. It dawned on me that I would not be an actor. It occurred to me that I was not white. It occurred to me that being what they call colored, being a Negro, was some kind of a disadvantage.

The kind of beauty I want most is the hard-to-get kind that comes from within - strength, courage, dignity.

Paradise is to be the ultimate instrument, fulfilling God's desperate intent that we love each other.

That we arrived at fifty years together is due as much to luck as to love, and a talent for knowing, when we stumble, where to fall, and how to get up again.