I have always respected everyone's religion. As I say, there is only one God and a lot of confused people.

Who ever walked behind anyone to freedom? If we can't go hand in hand, I don't want to go.

I've always known I was gifted, which is not the easiest thing in the world for a person to know, because you're not responsible for your gift, only for what you do with it.

Any woman who has a great deal to offer the world is in trouble. And if she's a black woman, seh's in deep trouble.

There's only one free person in this society, and he is white and male.

If you reach for something and find out it's the wrong thing, you change your program and move on.

I think we musicians are emissaries. Every time we go before the public, we're there to make converts.

There's a time when you have to explain to your children why they're born, and it's a marvelous thing if you know the reason by then.

There's a time when you have to explain to your children why they were born and it's a marvelous thing if you know the reason by then.

Who ever walked behind anyone to freedom?

This book of mine has not been manufactured: it has been garnered.

Past shouldn't always be treasured, becausePresent and Future become trashed.

Life for dreamers may not be easy, but it beats drifting. You never know where you'll end up drifting, maybe someplace good, maybe not." - L. R. W. Lee

Courage in danger is half the battle.

My great-grandfather was in the army in India, and we have photographs of my family there in full Victorian dress. They're incredibly romantic.

From the moment one sets up for an author, one must be treated as ceremoniously, that is as unfaithfully, "as a king's favorite or a king.

Diets show to what great lengths women will go so as not to go to great widths.

No communication or gift can exhaust genius or impoverish charity.

Point of sale is where you reach 100% of your audience 100% of the time.

No author dislikes to be edited as much as he dislikes not to be published.