Cam was already on his feet, waiting for me. I arched my brow at him. "Following me?" "Like a true serial killer," he replied.

You're a quiet, beautiful woman in a loud, ugly place. An orchid among weeds. You define obvious.

The first river you paddle runs through the rest of your life. It bubbles up in pools and eddies to remind you who you are.

The country is making a big mistake not teaching kids to cook and raise a garden and build fires.

The greatest threat to the constitutional right to vote is voter fraud.

I've read short stories that are as dense as a 19th century novel and novels that really are short stories filled with a lot of helium.

I'm dense when it comes to discouragement.

And I would urge all women to have that regular mammogram.

Height has nothing to do with it, it is your strength that counts.

For the girls with messy hair and thirsty hearts.

When people say, "It can't be done," or "You don't have what it takes," it makes the task all the more interesting.

I'm beginning to perceive motherhood as a long, slow letting go, of which birth is just the first step.

Because we always have a choice, even when it feels like we don't.

I lay on my back, surprised at how calm and focused I felt, strapped to four and a half million pounds of explosives.

I will not allow mere names to make distinctions for me, but still see men in herds for all them.

Each man has his own way of being himself and of saying it so ultimately that he can't be denied.

If artists do have ideas, they're often not great.

You're everything I hope for. You're everything I need. You are so beautiful to me.

I grew up in a house with very few books.

Malcolm X never renounced and never stepped away from a strong commitment to black nationalism and black self-determination. That's absolutely clear if you do any analysis of his speeches.

Dreams do come true. They definitely do come true. It just takes a while, I guess. Sometimes it doesn't, but for me it did, anyway.