I was sort of a half-breed of colonization, understanding everyone because I belonged completely to no one.

There is a strange kind of tragic enigma associated with the problem of racism. No one, or almost no one, wishes to see themselves as racist; still racism persists, real and tenacious.

Laundry is the only thing that should be separated by color.” - - Unknown “Racism rests upon and functions as a kind of seesaw: the persecutor rises by debasing and inferiorizing his victim.

It is not easy to escape mentally from a concrete situation, to refuse its ideology while continuing to live with its actual relationships.

It's easier to maintain a good character than to recover it when it's gone bad!

That girl's heart is bigger than Texas." Her eyes narrowed. "And it's as tender as a baby's butt. You take care with it, you hear?

Nothing hath separated us from God but our own will, or rather our own will is our separation from God.

Death was like love, a romantic escape.

It is a common law of nature, which no time will ever change, that superiors shall rule their inferiors.

I'm not acting; I'm not playing me. People forget that their actions make them who they are.

I remember once I didn't like a dress that we had to shoot - I'll never forget this - and so I turned it inside out and put it on the model backward.

If you plan it out, and it seems logical to you, then you can do it. I discovered the power of a plan.

Throwaway pens are no good - I never liked them. I've tried them all.

Difficulties can be overcome by not giving up.