They say behind mountains are more mountains.

All anyone can hope for is just a tiny bit of love, like a drop in a cup if you can get it, or a waterfall, a flood, if you can get that too.

Love is like the rain. It comes in a drizzle sometimes. Then it starts pouring and if you're not careful it will drown you.

Create dangerously, for people who read dangerously. ... Writing, knowing in part that no matter how trivial your words may seem, someday, somewhere, someone may risk his or her life to read them.

There is a frustration too, that at moments when there's not a coup, when there are not people in the streets, that the country disappears from people's consciousness.

When you write ,it's like braiding your hair. Taking a handful of coarse unruly strands and attempting to bring then unity.

It's not easy to start over in a new place,' he said. 'Exile is not for everyone. Someone has to stay behind, to receive the letters and greet family members when they come back.

People are just too hopeful, and sometimes hope is the biggest weapon of all to use against us. People will believe anything.

I think Haiti is a place that suffers so much from neglect that people only want to hear about it when it’s at its extreme. And that’s what they end up knowing about it.

Toni Cade Bambara said: “Writing is the way I participate in the struggle.”

Misery won't touch you gentle. It always leaves its thumbprints on you; sometimes it leaves them for others to see, sometimes for nobody but you to know of.

I've always believed that a person is smart. It's people that are stupid.

Bedtime stories were definitely a big part of my life because I was just so excited my father was talking to me.

The cat dwells within the circle of her own secret thoughts.

Patience is nobler motion than any deed.

The essence of religion, in my view, is the thirst for an end higher than natural ends.

Our expectations determine how we respond. Be careful what you expect.

The equations at which we arrive must be such that a person of any nation, by substituting the numerical values of the quantities as measured by his own national units, would obtain a true result.

At school I was always trying to con my teachers into letting me act out book reports instead of writing them.

It's always nice to work with someone you have a history with. It just makes it easier to click back into that dynamic and have a lot of fun.

ERA means abortion funding, means homosexual privileges, means whatever else.