This woman talk like she from so deep in the country she got corn growing in her shoes.

Wasn't that the point of the book? For women to realize, We are just two people. Not that much separates us. Not nearly as much as I'd thought.

Write about what disturbs you, particularly if it bothers no one else.

Ever morning, until you dead in the ground, you gone have to make this decision. You gone have to ask yourself, "Am I gone believe what them fools say about me today?

I always order the banned books from a black market dealer in California, figuring if the State of Mississippi banned them, they must be good.

....I realized I actually had a choice in what I could believe.

You is kind. You is smart. You is important.

Great books give you a feeling that you miss all day, until you finally get to crawl back inside those pages again.

...and that's when I get to wondering, what would happen if I told her she something good, ever day?

I was surprise to see the world didn't stop just cause my boy did.

Who knew paper and ink could be so vicious

A pessimist is a liar, unless he destroys himself, and no less of a hypocrite than a priest who defiles the holy.

There are people who can achieve huge success in life, while adding a bit of fun and a splash of colour to this increasingly grey world.

In politics, you also have to be cautiously optimistic.

There is one thing you have got to learn about our movement. Three people are better than no people.

I don't know about transformation. But scientifically you can say: Well, it doesn't seem to hurt anybody. Personally I've been cheered by books at really critical moments. That much I believe.

I recognize that there are some great things about not playing a song live, and just kind of piecing it together as you go.

I think there is a part of life that I'm missing.

It is therefore proper to acknowledge that the first filaments of the chick preexist in the egg and have a deeper origin, exactly as [the embryo] in the eggs of plants.

If you write really good material, the rest just falls into place. There's really no trick to it.

Enough of these little kitty cats we keep sending to Washington. David Dewhurst will compromise every day in the U.S. Senate... It's what he's done every day in state government.