The novel and the film of 'The Color Purple' are both works of the imagination that make claim to historical truth.

I can see criticizing, complaining, protesting - anything but choosing not to vote. Too many people died for us not to vote.

Criticism shouldn't be a performance that upstages the work it's talking about.

Home is the place where there is somebody who does not wish you any pain.

You can get away with anything as long as it works.

I think at the beginning of one's writing life, negative reviews are what one does to get attention and stake out your territory. It's also often a mistake.

It's not nothing when you're abroad and you don't have a washing machine.

People from Europe and people from Africa encountered one another long before the invention of "Europe" and "Africa" and "white people" and "black people."

The rise of fascism in Europe sent most Americans home. Some black American communists who had emigrated to the Soviet Union perished in Stalin's purges of the late 1930s.

If you're bored, your readers will be bored. If you're faking it, you won't get the kind of readers you want.

I can see Obama trying to be the president who suggests solutions for everyone who has experienced economic hardship.

Charity is appeased when some rich person gives money to the poor while justice asks why one person can be that rich when so many are poor.

Blondes make the best victims. They're like virgin snow that shows up the bloody footprints.

The notion that Anna would want something done "now" and not "shortly" is accurate.

Ш'm not cybernaut, this stuff's so foreign to me.

As a child, I never wanted my parents to be unhappy, which meant that I would always contemplate what would make them happy.

What is more beautiful than a sea of water with a number of white-winged boats skirting its surface? Poetry and beauty contesting with the wind and the waves!

I’ve never met a person who exaggerated God’s love. Never. It’s impossible.

My so-called career is a haphazard thing.

In brief, Western democracy, as other political models, is not exportable to all regions of the world.

Knowing the Self, God is known.