Certain seeds it will not nurture, certain fruit it will not bear and when the land kills of its own volition, we acquiesce and say the victim had no right to live

Beginning 'Beloved' with numerals rather than spelled out numbers, it was my intention to give the house an identity separate from the street or even the city.

I have the wonderful pleasure of finishing the book and closing it. And I don't read them later.

Something that is loved is never lost.

He said, 'Always. Always.

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

Love it, love it and the beat and beating heart, love that too. More than eyes or feet. More than lungs that have yet to draw free air. More than your life-holding womb and your life-giving private parts, hear me now, love your heart. For this is the prize.