Only those who are being burned know what fire is like.

Basically there is no difference between whites and blacks, browns and yellows. I decided to think no more of people as Northerners and Southerners.

Whenever I played Columbus, Ohio, I dropped in to see my close friend, a medium who had mysterious powers. Her Indian guide was Mohawk.

We are all gifted. That is our inheritance.

We never had a bathtub. Mom would bathe me in the wooden or tin washtub in the kitchen, or in a big lard can.

I am somebody cause God don't make no junk

Many people know how to criticize, but few know how to praise.

Today or any day that phone may ring and bring good news.

There was one emotional outlet my people always had when they had the blues. That was singing.

All the men in my life have been two things: an epic and an epidemic.

Whenever I write for hotel reservations, I always enclose a set of rules I have made for the hotels.

You can tell if someone really loves Books by the way they look at them, how they open and close them, how they turn the pages.

He howled in despair as his body was enveloped by a terrifying and sickening darkness.

Haylee shook her head as soon as they were gone. “Christ, how can our family be mankind’s best hope?

My mom is my best friend in the entire world. She is so cool and so inspiring. I've always been able to be open with her and talk to her as a friend.

I recently had my problems on the run, but now they've re-grouped, and are making another attack.

Oklahoma is very beautiful, and Eric loves beauty, but he already has that in you.

I've never been all that interested or aware of what people are thinking about me or saying about me. I think that has kept me safest and sanest.

The past is the one thing we are not prisoners of. We can do with the past exactly what we wish. What we can't do is to change its consequences.

Fashion is not frivolous. It is a part of being alive today.

My vocal style I haven't tried to copy from anyone. It just developed until it became the girlish whine it is today.