My father saw two black men lynched on his street in Cartersville, as a child. And I think seeing two black businessmen - not vagrants - hanging from trees as a child was traumatic for him.

My father saw two black men lynched on his street in Cartersville, as a child. And I think seeing two black businessmen - not vagrants - hanging from trees as a child was traumatic for him.

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.

You are your best thing

I didn't fall in love, I rose in it.

Movements toward freedom and the self-respect that comes from something other than what people think is their most important feature.

Deep, deep trouble. Can't rival the dead for love. Lose every time.