Better immersion than to live untouched.

Every woman who writes is a survivor.

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

She would not exchange her solitude for anything. Never again to be forced to move to the rhythms of others.

The fact that human beings do not put up forever with misery, humiliation, degradation, actual physical deprivation but act is a fact which every human being should know about. We are a species that makes changes.

The clock talked loud. I threw it away, it scared me what it talked.

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.