Prayer is not our using of God

Dell had left the army and taken the discipline home with him. I’d left the theatre world and taken the whisky sodas home with me.

People expect black women to be angry, irrationally so, without reason. They think we are animals and we go around like the Wild Things.

Commandments are opportunities to exercise our agency and to receive blessings.

The shorter the hours, the larger the income. Don't get into the habit of putting in long hours or you may be set down into a permanent subordinate position.

This was really the way my whole road experience began, and the things that were to come are too fantastic not to tell.

For the infinite glorious Creator of all things, to become a creature, is a mystery exceeding all human understanding.

Reality is not always probable, or likely. But if you're writing a story, you have to make it as plausible as you can, because if not, the reader's imagination will reject it.

Be aware of your own worth, use all of your power to achieve it. Create an ocean from a dewdrop. Do not beg for light from the moon, obtain it from the spark within you.

I started by writing, with my partner Ed Simmons, a monologue for Danny Thomas, that he performed at Ciro's nightclub in Los Angeles.

I never wanted to be a public speaker.