And I communed with many different faiths and even when I wanted to be rebellious I never did not believe in Him. I never believed the people who said God was destructive or punishing.

When you expect good, it's available constantly, and it makes itself a reality in your life.

When black women stick together, we are the most powerful force in the universe.

I am not getting any younger and am taking a new approach to life.

Even when I was saying I was Agnostic and trying to figure out my thoughts, I felt God was allowing me to do that.

Once our storyline gets under way, I just hope people don't throw cabbages at me in the market.

You very seldom see a picture where you watch the process of falling in love.

Does my character hate Bree? Well, let's just put it this way. Bree hasn't seen the last of me. I gave that drunk gal a ride home a few episodes ago and she turned on me!

Everyone has the impulse to be elite.

I rather go to see a good play than be in one.

I have always done what I wanted to do.

Living in a bookshop is like living in a warehouse of explosives. Those shelves are ranked with the most furious combustibles in the world--the brains of men.

The truth is, that MOST of the time MOST of us take the road MOST traveled, the path of least resistance and MOST comfortable.

If things don't go fantastically, you just have to deal with it.

The only reason why anything virtuous or lively survives in us is this, 'the LORD is there'" (Ez. 35:10)

From Maya Angelou I began to believe that I, too, someday, could be a writer, and I also learned how tortuous it can be to be in possession of a unique voice.

Mediocrity borrows, genius steals.

I believe it would be considerably healthier for us to dare to live without a reason for many things than with reasons that are simplistic.

What innocence, may I ask, is being played here when it is known that this virtuous damsel has already got a dozen illegitimate children?

In America, Jefferson noted with approval, women knew their place.

It's hard to swallow your pride. That's why I slather mine in mayonnaise.