It is sheer good fortune to miss somebody long before they leave you.

When a man angers you, he conquers you.

It had been the longest time since she had had a rib-scraping laugh. She had forgotten how deep and down it could be. So different from the miscellaneous giggles and smiles she had learned to be content with these past few years.

If there's a book you really want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it.

Racism will disappear when it's no longer profitable, and no longer psychologically useful. And when that happens, it'll be gone. But at the moment, people make a lot of money off of it, pro and con.

There is an incredible amount of magic and feistiness in black men that nobody has been able to wipe out. But everybody has tried.

Never did he once consider directing his hatred toward the hunters. Such an emotion would have destroyed him ... His subconscious knew what his min did not guess-that hating them would have consumed him, burned him up like a piece of soft coal, leaving only flakes of ash and a question mark of smoke.