Don't ever think I fell for you, or fell over you. I didn't fall in love, I rose in it.

Black women were armed, black women were dangerous and the less money they had the deadlier the weapon they chose.

…he didn’t needs words or even want them because he knew how they could lie, could heat your blood and disappear.

Violet learned then what she had forgotten until this moment: that laughter is serious. More complicated, more serious than tears.

Meekly swallowing and assimilating the customs of the more powerful has always been a strategy by which the less powerful have tried to fit in.

Saying of the ProphetStruggleThe holy warrior is he who struggles with himself.

For a documentary it's so important to find the characters and to find people who will give you access to film

You can start your day over anytime.

But this people has deliberately made itself stupid, for nearly a millennium: nowhere have the two great European narcotics, alcohol and Christianity, been abused more dissolutely.

The easier you make it look, the more difficult it is. Creating characters out of nothing, and making them interesting - and that's another advice I would give to writers.

Our lives change when our habits change.

I didn't write much until I turned 40. Up until then I felt constrained by a sense of the discipline of New Testament studies and a sense of the ruling elite in theology and biblical studies.

I'm drawn to damaged, complicated characters.

Heaven is like an egg, and the earth is like the yolk of the egg.