Our needs cancel each other out, and that's as solid a base for love as any.

Every country that aspires to become a nation needs its heroes, its eminent civic and moral leaders, and if it doesn't have them, it's our duty to invent them.

Death is a woman, and for that reason she's courageous and just, and never makes distinctions between mortals; she'll crush the ignorant, the arrogant, and the wise alike under her icy foot.

A story is like building a chapel; a novel is a cathedral.

Sometimes it's necessary to believe in love, even if it doesn't exist.

our love for the dead, like a floating iceberg, can only be measured by the depths of our resentments.

The voice of a Black woman should always be HERSELF ...No edits - no erasure - no pressure - no expectations - no additions - no intruders

If we acknowledge our need for God, he will help us.

We also told her you weren't a serial killer," Brit interjected. Cam nodded. "That's a glowing recommendation. Hey, at least he's not a serial killer. I'm going to put that on my Facebook profile.

People are eternally divided into two classes, the believer, builder, and praiser...and the unbeliever, destroyer and critic.

For tens of millions of people [television] has become habit-forming, brain-softening, taste-degrading.

I'm really open to just about anything but I think the real dream is to be able to write my own thing.

I tend to be more interested in the trend pieces than who got a licensing deal for sunglasses, but that's not surprising.

More important than the HOW we achieve financial freedom, is the WHY. Find YOUR reasons why you want to be free and wealthy.

A fastidious taste is like a squeamish appetite; the one has its origin in some disease of the mind, as the other has in some ailment of the stomach.

He alone is great Who by a life heroic conquers fate.