She already felt dead in everything but name. What remained to be taken from her? She longed to be enfolded, welcomed, into the earth - to breathe no more, love no more, hurt no more

What's it like? Being married?Cold feet. Middle of the night you're sleeping, suddenly, wham, you've got ice cold feet warming themselves on the back of your legs.

Surrounded by darkness yet enfolded in light

Isn't it strange, how one so afraid of contracting a fatal malady...should so earnestly wish for death, as well?

If the clouds be full of rain, they empty themselves upon the earth: and if the tree falls toward the south, or toward the north, in the place where the tree falls, there it shall be.

Despair and Genius are too oft connected

One of the most helpful things that any body can learn is to give up trying to catch the last eighth - or the first. These two are the most expensive eighths in the world.

If I'm not a murderer," asked Corny, "how come I keep killing people?

Winners are convinced they will finish first. The others hope to finish first.

Black women are going to have to take more leadership. I think we are prepared because we bring a tenaciousness with us. We do not fear losing friends, allies, or jobs.

I recently learn a new word: insatiable. That's me.

There are the saints who were raptured at the beginning of the tribulation period - those are the Christians.

You can't fool all of the people all of the time. But it isn't necessary.

It's the anarchy of poverty delights me, the old yellow wooden house indented among the new brick tenements