I like cooking, but I think someone else ought to do the dishes.

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.

Most civilizations had more fiction than they did real history.

Unfortunately, since there was only one of him, most of his riches were wasted.

Never let the things you want make you forget the things you have.

An idyllic childhood is probably illusion.

I travel with chocolate - Godiva with caramel. When the craving hits, I have to have it. I share, but if I'm on my last one, I've been known to say, 'Sorry, I'm out!'

It's the things we love most that destroy us.

In a world shaped and colored more and more by politicians, the nations meet politically, and hardly any other way to settle their differences.

Just don't do things that depress you. I realized if it depresses me, then I just don't want to get close to it. If it brings me down, I just really can't get into it.

If you want to dig, if you want to pry, do it on your time, but I'm going to be a woman of dignity.

Save a tree, eat a beaver.