One must always be aware, to notice—even though the cost of noticing is to become responsible.

Race is a layer of being, but not a culmination.

Anger becomes limiting, restricting. You can't see through it. While anger is there, look at that, too. But after a while, you have to look at something else.

One must always be aware, to notice even though the cost of noticing is to become responsible.

Let heartbreak be alternative to coffe break, five midmorning minutes devoted to emotion.

The writer in me can look as far as an African-American woman and stop. Often that writer looks through the African-American woman. Race is a layer of being, but not a culmination.

the truth is not supposed to free you from the truth, just from everything else

Let's fall in love and screw up our lives even more?

The highest wisdom is sometimes found in the lowest people.

And all I did was read, and when I was too high to read I stared out the windows.

If wrinkles must be written on our brows, let them not be written upon the heart. The spirit should never grow old.

America united with a handful of troops, or without a single soldier, exhibits a more forbidding posture to foreign ambition than America disunited, with a hundred thousand veterans ready for combat.

Looking long term, a stronger, wealthier, and more stable Central America next door benefits the United States' own safety, security, and economy.

The duty of lovers is to tarnish the Golden Rule

This nation can no longer tolerate the autonomous conduct of any single service. A waste of the resources of America in spendthrift defense is an invitation to disaster for America.

Fear not lest precautions and protective contrivances diminish your pleasure: mystery only adds thereto.

I have a wife and anything. That's the arrangement we have. I have a wife, and she's cool. And also I have anything I want.