She was this girl I once knew. Took my breath away, she was so pretty. Took my heart, if you want to know the truth. I was kind of angry about it at the time.

The Black writer explains pain to those who inflict it.

We're only truly secure when we can look out our kitchen window and see our food growing and our friends working nearby.

In the last few days, I have been the victim of a campaign of slander and shameful lies, a campaign which has deeply shocked and hurt me. Enough is enough.

I wanted to sing songs that my voice was comfortable with.

We do not discuss the members of our family to their faces.

I'm older and older. With any experience you have, you know more about yourself.

I tell you, if you're in the front row of the parade and you stop walking, pretty soon you're back in the tuba section. And if you want to lead the parade you've got to keep moving.

I've never heard of a size 0 or a negative human. That's hard. A lot of girls aren't naturally built that way.

Man lives more by affirmation than by bread.

It has to be living, to learn the speech of the place, It has to face the man of the time.