She wasn't actually speaking to me, she was singing a kind of lullaby of talk. But, eventually, the music stopped.

How to Commit the Perfect Murder" was an old game in heaven. I always chose the icicle: the weapon melts away.

You save yourself or you remain unsaved.

I stared at her black hair. It was shiny like the promises in magazines.

Sometimes the dreams that come true are the dreams you never even knew you had.

Your first kiss is destiny knocking.

You could not be filled with hate and be beautiful. Like any other girl, I wanted to be beautiful. But I was filled with hate.

I like gardening - it's a place where I find myself when I need to lose myself.

I would like to tell you that I am, and you will one day be, forever safe.

She liked to imagine that when she passed the world looked after her, but she also knew how anonymous she was.

Heaven is comfort, but it's still not living.

It's strange how quickly the significance of of a certain smell can change, depending on what path it decides to take through the brain. It's strange how close love and fear live to each other.

Not just as a black woman, but as a woman, since the beginning of time, beauty has been our responsibility.

The State Department has been your beat for so long. It has always smelled like Bob Corker was the in case of emergency, the easy guy.

I am obsessive, also I am industrious. Besides, the time when you are most alive and most aware is in childhood and one is trying to recapture that heightened awareness.

Coffee in the morning, cocaine afternoons.

I'm always calling my doctor because I'm constantly injuring myself while on the road, like tearing a ligament, blasting my ears or losing my voice. Plus, I'm a total hypochondriac.

Talent's like a baby. Wrap it up in wool and it goes to sleep.

The redemptive power of divine grace no longer seemed credible, nor very respectable in the arbitrary performance that was claimed for it.

The conjunction of the day and the night is the most auspicious time for calling on God. The mind remains pure at this time.

As humans we are born of the Earth, nourished by the Earth, healed by the Earth.