I love writing about black women, but if you go beyond that, we're human beings - and because we're human beings, it's universal for everybody.

A staple of my personality is that I want what I want - and Im willing to do without until I get it.

We still have a lot of work to do in American culture. More open-mindedness is happening - in some cases rapidly, in some, slowly.

Thank you for seeing me on the days when I couldn't see myself.

I think pregnancy, like life, is what you make it. I received a good hand. I'm thankful and blessed and so peaceful and can't wait to welcome my son.

The chief wonder of education is that it does not ruin everybody concerned in it, teachers and taught.

Maybe I should have given more thought to her thoughts.

In the sinews of the dead there is no blood.

My own self-consciousness cries out to me coldly: how does one love zero?

The French equate intelligence with rational discourse, the Russians with intense soul-searching. For the Mexican, intelligence is inseparable from maliciousness.

The first concert I attended was an Elvis concert when I was eleven. Even at that age he made me realize the tremendous effect a performer could have on an audience.

President Obama will be going to Disney World where he'll unveil his new plan to create jobs. And what better place for the president to talk about his jobs plan than Fantasyland?

What you make happen for others, God will make happen for you.

Imagination is seeing with the eye of God.

There's something beautiful about working in the one place in the world where the world is present, like United Nations. Otherwise, one would have to go to each of these countries to negotiate.