I gave up being a conventional person a long time ago. Things have been so much more exciting since I did.

If you're going to generalize about women, you'll find yourself up to here in exceptions.

Jealousy had a taste, all right. A bitter and tongue-stinging flavor, like a peach pit.

Down through the years certain fads of slang had come and gone, and their vestiges could be found in Janie's and Mabel's conversation, like mastodon bones in a swamp.

Who was it had said when you fall in love all the popular songs suddenly seemed to mean something.

Most women would each be left with fewer dreams or without a dream, if the institution of marriage were to be abolished.

Persist. Practice. Experiment. Imagine. Do your best work, and all else will follow.

Realism is criminal.

True love knows no boundaries.

Don't confuse having a career with having a life.

Free enterprise empowers entrepreneurs who have ideas and imagination, investors who take risks, and workers who hone their skills and offer their labor.

When you're first starting out, you want to keep making good movies. When you're young and you're black, you do a bad movie and you're through.

You may feel a sensation of floating. You may see colors, maybe no phenomena, it doesn't matter. You are absorbing power.

A story lives transformed by a gesture not made or a word not spoken

The fly in her argument is that when she says, 'they' will feel like lemons, we don't know who 'they' are. And 'they' might BE lemons.