She didn't tell him white folks couldn't love the same as coloreds. She couldn't love the same neither though, cuz more than half of her was white.

If she could hate this much she sure as hell had loved.

An odd thing about beauty, however, is that it's absence tends not to arouse our sympathy as much as other forms of privation do.

It's not just other people we need to forgive, Mitch. " He finally whispered, "We also need to forgive ourselves.

Strive to be value oriented rather than success oriented.

Strategy is 5 percent thinking, 95 percent execution. And strategy execution is 5 percent technical, 95 percent people-related.

When I cannot bear outer pressures anymore, I begin to put order in my belongings...As if unable to organize and control my life, I seek to exert this on the world of objects.

An army, like a serpent, travels on its belly.

Novels are like paintings, specifically watercolors. Every stroke you put down you have to go with. Of course you can rewrite, but the original strokes are still there in the texture of the thing.

I am a fallen woman, but I assure you: I did not fall. I was pushed.

The only pictorial matter that is of interest to me is the matter and sentiments brought about by the work itself.

Courage is not the absence of despair; it is, rather, the capacity to move ahead in spite of despair.