It is a curious thing to be a woman in the Caribbean after you have been a woman in these United States.

If you are silent about your pain, they’ll kill you and say you enjoyed it.

Sometimes, I feel discriminated against, but it does not make me angry. It merely astonishes me. How can any deny themselves the pleasure of my company? It's beyond me.

I have the nerve to walk my own way, however hard, in my search for reality, rather than climb upon the rattling wagon of wishful illusions.

Love makes your soul crawl out from its hiding place.

All my skinfolk ain't kinfolk.

There are years that ask questions and years that answer.

Research is formalized curiosity. It is poking and prying with a purpose.

I love myself when I am laughing. . . and then again when I am looking mean and impressive.

Bitterness is the coward's revenge on the world for having been hurt.

If you haven't got it, you can't show it. If you have got it, you can't hide it.

I go to seek a Great Perhaps.

The only end of writing is to enable readers better to enjoy life, or better to endure it.

Some people won't go the extra mile, and then on their birthday, when no one makes a fuss, they feel neglected and bitter.

Expertise is great, but it has a bad side effect: It tends to create the inability to accept new ideas.

A business is good if it gives a decent day's reward for a decent day's work, treats people decently, and gives them a voice at the top.

Trillions of dollars every day are being exchanged around the world in all of the financial markets.

Instead of joyfully looking forward to my birth, my mother began systematically preparing for her own death. She was fatalistic.

You will be judged in years to come by how you responded to genocide on your watch.

You're going to learn that one of the most brutal things in the world is your average nineteen-year-old American boy.

A fluent trumpeter with a bright tone and a forward-looking style.