If you can only be tall because someone else is on their knees, then you have a serious problem. And white people have a very, very serious problem.

You are your best thing

Lonely was much better than alone.

Anything I have ever learned of any consequence, I have learned from Black people. I have never been bored by any Black person, ever.

My first-born. All I can remember of her is how she loved the burned bottom of bread. Can you beat that? Eight children and that's all I remember.

A little black girl yearns for the blue eyes of a little white girl, and the horror at the heart of her yearning is exceeded only by the evil of fulfillment

If you surrendered to the air, you could ride it.