What could you possibly hope to find in a cemetary?" The women said. "The dead tell no secrets and the living seldom come to visit them.

Stories exist to entertain and inspire us. They’re merely veils of hope for when we see the ugliness of the world.

It is known all over the world that there are no secrets in the ghetto and as long as you keep those secrets, you may keep your life.

As equality increases, so does the number of people struggling for predominance.

Everybody should have a documentary made about themselves. It's amazing what you see and what you learn.

Success is the result of psychologically preparing for it, prior to achieving it!

I loved the fact that it wasn't my responsibility to change somebody, that it was God's, that my part was just to communicate love and approval.

My first job was washing dishes in the basement of a nursing home for $2.10 an hour, and I learned as much about the value of hard work there as I ever did later.

There has to be life after the Charlotte Mayors office.

I’ve never loved anyone the way I love you,” he whispered. “Lucky them.

Time is only an idea. There is only the Reality. Whatever you think it is, it looks like that.

Just because suddenly you have a sabbatical doesn't mean that the writing occasion comes to you.

Each thing I do, I rush through, so I can do something else.