I love Baltimore, I want to retire a raven

I'm just really happy.

The darker the night, the brighter the stars, The deeper the grief, the closer is God!

Things don't make me a person. Character does.

She knows herself to be at the mercy of events, and she knows by now that events have no mercy.

The process of empowerment cannot be simplistically defined in accordance with our own particular class interests. We must learn to lift as we climb.

I remember adolescence, the years of having the impulse control of a mousetrap, of being as private as a safe-deposit box.

If you take a little time and watch forensics, and see what men, sick-minded men do ... I don't know whether it's wise for women to feed the sickness that's in the man.

Who knows for sure how complex or how uncomplex the ancient people's lives were.

Beauty is nothing but the beginning of terror, which we are still just able to endure, and we are so awed because it serenely disdains to annihilate us.

I personally don’t have the ability to lie about my life, for better or for worse.

You cannot be a Big person with a Small heart