Light came to me when I realized that I did not have to consider any racial group as a whole. God made them duck by duck and that was the only way I could see them.

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.

EACH MORNING I SAY WAKE UP, I GOT A CHANCE TO MAKE UP, MY WRONGS HAS TO BE CLEAN UP, MY PAST IS A BREAK UP, I HAVE TO THINK FOR FUTURE BACK UP.

Man is a coward in space, for he is by himself.

Did You wrap yourself inside the unexpected so we might know that Love would go that far?

She looked not so much composed as drawn inward. She was one of those people who are irrevocably, incurably honest and therefore both inflexible and vulnerable at the same time.

Nature makes woman to be won and men to win.

The pride never leads, never submits, and never leaves.

Better to leave dreams behind and go forward with purpose.

Never assume, no matter how strong the temptation, that other people are low-life lying manipulators without a shred of human decency.

Life is very persistent and very ingenious in seizing every opportunity.

Virtue's guard is labor; ease, her sleep.