Not everybody feels religion the same way. Some it's in their mouth, but some it's like a hope in their blood, their bones.

Not to have an audience is a kind of death.

I very much dislike the word "race," and I never use it. I use the word "racist." Race is not a fact. There is only one race: human. Skin color is less than 2 percent of the DNA.

Lighting does occasionally strike and occasional the result isn't a corpse.

It's hard for me to talk about the terrible things that have happened in my lifetime because they didn't need to be.

More than in any other human relationship, overwhelmingly more, motherhood means being instantly interruptible, responsive, and responsible

And when is there time to remember, to sift, to weigh, to estimate, to total?