Most of our lives are spent in little towns, little towns all throughout the country. That's where we live. And that's where the juices come from and that's where we made it, not made it in terms of success but made who we are.

Everything depends on knowing how much,” she said, and “Good is knowing when to stop.

It was a fine cry - loud and long - but it had no bottom and it had no top, just circles and circles of sorrow.

But to find out the truth about how dreams die, one should never take the word of the dreamer.

...black women write differently from white women. This is the most marked difference of all those combinations of black and white, male and female. It's not so much that women write differently from men, but that black women write differently from white women. Black men don't write very differently from white men.

When a man angers you, he conquers you.

You have to be willing to think the unthinkable.