Mastery is not something that strikes in an instant, like a thunderbolt, but a gathering power that moves steadily through time, like weather.

...{N}othing is harder for the developing writer than overcoming his anxiety that he is fooling himself and cheating or embarrassing his family and friends.

Books are something which by the words breaths when you stop writing it stops it's own proccess = breathing..

Books -where if people suffered, they suffered in beautiful language, not in monosyllables, as we did in Kansas

There is always much to be learned from bad times, and to many people who prosper, they get good lessons from bad times inorder to find the way out.

Life it is not just a series of calculations and a sum total of statistics, it's about experience, it's about participation, it is something more complex and more interesting than what is obvious.

If it were up to me, I would put in jail every sandal-wearing, scruffy-bearded weirdo who burns the American flag. But I am not king.

Feminism as a theoretical enterprise is approached differently by Black women depending on where we are. There are more reformist Black women who tend to use the phrase "Black feminism".

Nurturing has the ability to transform people's lives.

A small pepperoni pizza on a tortilla is healthier than salmon teriyaki with rice and carrots.

If you think advantage lies in resources, then you think the best educational system is the one that spends the most money.

Ultimately ideas come out of a temperament or a sensibility, they are a crystallization or a precipitation of temperament.