You can tell which girls lack mothers by the look of their hair.

Embodiment means we no longer say, I had this experience; we say, I am this experience.

We write to taste life twice," Anais Nin wrote, "in the moment and in retrospection.

We must err , do so on the side of audacity

Someone who thinks death is the scariest thing doesn't know a thing about life.

Up until then I'd thought that white people and colored people getting along was the big aim, but after that I decided everybody being colorless together was a better plan. I thought of that policeman, Eddie Hazelwurst, saying I'd lowered myself to be in this house of colored women, and for the very life of me I couldn't understand how it had turned out this way, how colored women had become the lowest ones on the totem pole. You only had to look at them to see how special they were, like hidden royalty among us. Eddie Hazelwurst. What a shitbucket.

Stopping is a spiritual art. It is the refuge where we drink life in.