That's what motherhood is: you're working; you're doing 25 different jobs, and you're not getting paid.

Let's make justice a process, not an afterthought

He should have known. She was the only wanna be immortal he’d ever known.

From blood banking to the modern subway, from jazz to social justice, the contributions of African Americans have shaped and molded and influenced our national culture and our national character.

The Cosmos is all that is or ever was or ever will be.

I remember the feeling. Whenever my father got so absorbed in a book that we might have been in visible I felt like taking a pair of scissors and cutting it up.

Half of Japan still couldn't tell the difference between crime and politics.

I've been accused of bad taste, and I'll go down to my grave accused of it and always by the same people, the ones who eat in restaurants that reserve the right to refuse service to anyone.

I needed to grow up and do things all adults do. It was time to stop having everything spoon fed to me. It was about being independent.

We smile at the ignorance of the savage who cuts down the tree in order to reach its fruit; but the same blunder is made by every person who is over eager and impatient in the pursuit of pleasure.

Say not that thou hast royal blood in thy veins; say not that thou art born of God if thou canst not prove thy pedigree by daring to be holy!