You looking good." "Devil's confusion. He lets me look good long as I feel bad.

Somebody has to take responsibility for being a leader.

Every now and then she looked around for tangible evidence of his having ever been there. Where were the butterflies? the blueberries? the whistling reed? She could find nothing, for he had left nothing but his stunning absence.

A lot of black people believe that Jews in this country have become white. They behave like white people rather than Jewish people.

Jealousy we understood and thought natural... But envy was a strange, new feeling for us. And all the time we knew that Maureen Peal was not the Enemy and not worthy of such intense hatred. The Thing to fear was the Thing that made her beautiful, and not us.

I sang "O Holy Night" in a school choir. My mother came and listened to me and complimented me. So that was the high point. I cannot sing a note.

Liberation means you don't have to be silenced.