I didn't really understand racism because I grew up in an all-black society, so I didn't see how it was possible not to like me!

There's something to be said about a slightly plump person—you have just enough of too much.

The inevitable is no less a shock just because it is inevitable.

Express everything you like. No word can hurt you. None. No idea can hurt you. Not being able to express an idea or word will hurt you more. Like a bullet.

I was given a dictionary when I was seven, and I read it because I had nothing else to read. I read it the way you read a book.

People don't make changes because things are wonderful.

I would be lost without the feeling of antagonism that people have towards me. I write out of defiance.

People only say I’m angry because I’m black and I’m a woman.

A great piece of literature encompasses all that is and all that will be.

...yet a memory cannot be trusted, for so much of the experience of the past is determined by the experience of the present.

I'm so used to being misunderstood.

A brand is a person that has a voice, evokes emotion and spreads a message.

The mind of had the ability to alter the state of matter itself, and, more important, the mind had the power to encourage the physical world to move in a specific direction

Using a metaphor in front of a man as unimaginative as Ridcully was like ared flag to a bu... was like putting something very annoying in front ofsomeone who was annoyed by it.

It is a profitable thing, if one is wise, to seem foolish.

The dead have no ears, no answering machines that we know of, still we call.

The mind of a human being is formed only of comparisons made in order to examine analogies, and therefore cannot precede the existence of memory.

Ned, have you considered any of the other major religions? They're all pretty much the same.

Preparation through education is less costly than learning through tragedy.

That's the only sense in which I've been lucky: I have the kind of face to which cosmetics could be applied.

Decisions, not conditions, determine what a man is.