I began to realize that this idea of the lighter the better and the darker the worse was really - had an impact on sororities, on friendships, on all sorts of things, and it was stunning to me.

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.

Literature gives great light and great life.

The more "things" I have, the more time I spend thinking about them, moving them around, fixing them, looking for them, or upgrading them.

It is not the employer who pays wages - he only handles the money. It is the product that pays wages.

As some to Church repair, not for the doctrine, but the music there.

I'm tired of good people getting ripped off by diet products that don't work!

In regard to infallibility, I never claimed it; God alone is infallible. His word is true, and in Him is no variableness, or shadow of turning.

Our field trips are an opportunity for you to enter into the world of mystical power.

I was scared into being good. But I'm sure I did regular kid stuff.

For love would be love of the wrong thing; there is yet faith, But the faith and the love and the hope are all in the waiting.

Your book grows. The early part of your book is growing still while you are writing the later part of your book.