I have a kind of respect - a worshipful attitude, even - for nature and the natural order and the cosmos and the seasons.

Racism is very painful. That's life. It never ends.

I want my great-granddaughter to have a fairly good understanding of the world in which I lived for 81 years and also the world before I came into it - all the way back a hundred thousand years, to the beginning of our species.

I never had an occasion to question color, therefore, I only saw myself as what I was... a human being.

I am not a hugely religious person, but I believe that there is a oneness with everything. And because there is this oneness, it is possible that my mother is the principal reason for my life.

Marriage is no way of life for the weak, the selfish, or the insecure.

I had learned something of Miami from people who had visited there, so I knew what to expect.