If you give people a chance, they shine.

You're off to Great Places!Today is your day!Your mountain is waiting, So... get on your way!

I imagine some people, like some toys, are born defective - which I suppose makes us all broken toys, don't you think?

If a palmist grasp my palm, and look into it, without seeing a single line, what would he read?

A little known fact: I read all the time. books were the one thing that got me out of Gatlin, even if it was only for a little while.

Pleasure and action make the hours seem short.

The curious are always in some danger. If you are curious you might never come home.

Black women, whose experience is unique, are seldom recognized as a particular social-cultural entity and are seldom thought to be important enough for serious scholarly consideration.

What a strange life I lead- a kind of Cinderella-life-half glitter in crystal shoes, half mice and cinders! But it is a wonderful life all the same.

So difficult it is to show the various meanings and imperfections of words when we have nothing else but words to do it with.

Anglers may be divided into almost as many genera and species as the fish they catch, and engage in the sport from as many impulses.