There are worse words than cuss-words, there are words that hurt.

Women have the right to say: this is surface, this falsifies reality, this degrades.

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.

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.

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

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.

Think about all that we've lost that has been said orally because nobody was taking it down. I feel very fortunate to live in a time where we have so many different voices. We have a much richer literature than we've ever had, and we can know America so much better.