I'm sorry, but were you dropped on your head as an infant?

Wasn't that the point of the book? For women to realize, We are just two people. Not that much separates us. Not nearly as much as I'd thought.

Write about what disturbs you, particularly if it bothers no one else.

Ever morning, until you dead in the ground, you gone have to make this decision. You gone have to ask yourself, "Am I gone believe what them fools say about me today?

I always order the banned books from a black market dealer in California, figuring if the State of Mississippi banned them, they must be good.

....I realized I actually had a choice in what I could believe.

You is kind. You is smart. You is important.

Great books give you a feeling that you miss all day, until you finally get to crawl back inside those pages again.

...and that's when I get to wondering, what would happen if I told her she something good, ever day?

I was surprise to see the world didn't stop just cause my boy did.

Who knew paper and ink could be so vicious

And so the dentist says 'Rinse.' So you lean over, and you're lookin' at this miniature toilet bowl.

The truth hurt more than lies.

I began to get a feeling (...) of being the only sane man in a nut house. It doesn't make you feel superior but depressed and scared, because there is nobody you can contact.

Some women born to raise a beautiful families while some women are born to build an empire from ashes and rule the rest.

As much as I loved the art and discipline of the dance, it didn't love me!

He that mockes a cripple, ought to be whole.

I hated being careful, too - or wanted to, at least.

There are hits and misses, and as an actress, we are mentally ready for all that.

You know, Jesse Jackson is just trying to stir up a hornet's nest.

This is exactly why the Electoral College is set up the way it is, so that one state would not elect the president.