Home is memory, home is your history, home is where you work. Some people want to abandon it and become truly local. But the questions are all there.

I have only to break into the tightness of a strawberry, and I see summer - its dust and lowering skies.

If you want to fly, you have to give up the things that weigh you down.

The function of freedom is to free someone else.

Don’t beg anybody for anything, especially love.

There is no such thing as race. None. There is just a human race - scientifically, anthropologically. Racism is a construct, a social construct... it has a social function, racism.

There is no time for despair, no place for self-pity, no need for silence, no room for fear. We speak, we write, we do language. That is how civilizations heal.

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

In times of dread, artists must never choose to remain silent.

All water has a perfect memory and is forever trying to get back to where it was.

Oppressive language does more than represent violence; it is violence; does more than represent the limits of knowledge; it limits knowledge.

You can't do it better without teamwork.

The present structure of rewards in high schools produces a response on the part of an adolescent social system which effectively impedes the process of education.

Self-made men often worship their creator.

I fear you may become a lonely man, even in the company of others.

I do partake in a couple of drinks now and again, but I've never drank to feel alive.

I'll stay in Memphis.

Mothers work outside the home for many reasons; one of them is almost always because their families need their income to live up to their standards for their children.

As soon as you know what you're doing, you're doing it wrong.

It is a very trying task for deceitful people, always to have to cover up their lack of sincerity and to repair the breaking of their word.

Women, on average, earn less than men in almost every occupation, including traditional female orientated jobs like nursing and teaching.