I'd love to be the political voice of my generation, but that's not my gift.

You leave home to seek your fortune and, when you get it, you go home and share it with your family.

Completeness? Happiness? These words don't come close to describing my emotions. There truly is nothing I can say to capture what motherhood means to me, particularly given my medical history.

I don't let people use me. That's why I like a small number of people in my life. The more people in my life, the more complex it becomes, so I just try to keep it at a minimum.

Time has nothing to do with the gifts that the gods give you; it's what you do.

I'm picking and choosing in terms of the stress factor. If it's not fun, I'm not going to do it.

I dont think being black has held me back at all. Being black makes you strong.

If I could be doing anything, I'd be laying on the floor in my birthday suit eating junk food and watching something dumb on TV.

If you have your own agenda and your own style and you don't easily conform to what the masses are doing, you're looked upon as being difficult. Whereas, I think of it as just being an individual.

Long tresses down to the floor can be beautiful, but learn to love what you have.

Historically, in my generation, all of my heroes and heroines have had issues and problems. We all do.

When superstitions enter the world of imagination, then intelligence and science become fiction.

France has lost a battle. But France has not lost the war

If he or she doesn't see or respect your present value nor your future dream the moment you connected there is little or no chance that he or she will do in future.

Prayer is aligning ourselves with the purposes of God.

Knowing love or the hope of knowing love is the anchor that keeps us from falling into that sea of despair.

In all chaos there is a cosmos, in all disorder a secret order.

Support your right to arm bears.

Every day in life there are challenges; whether you're an accountant, a race car driver or whatever you do.

In the name of peace They waged the wars ain't they got no shame

Writing [for the novelist] is not an activity, but a condition. That is why one simply can't resume the work when one has a job and a free half-day. Reading is the conveyance of this condition.