Women hand sight down through the generations. Mother to daughter.

The world can be a hard place sometimes... You have to have heart. You have to be strong. Parents want their children to grow up to be strong. Not just any strong, mind you, but loving strong.

But you...are my sweetest gift. The life surprise that soothed all my ills and gave me my greatest joys. I feel so blessed you are mine. —Mama Ya-Ya

Perhaps I was drawn to stories in which people found their true desires because I was a stranger to myself.

I'm always fascinated by the use of the first-person plural talking about sports.

I can't tell a story in the white man's language, so I say what I want to say with my paintings.

Although I was raised with love, I was always lonely.

Beautiful women must think about their beauty as capitalists think about their investments or politicians about their majorities; it is all they have to insure their places in the world.

You can measure a man's worth by the breed of person he throws out of his office.

We lose thousands of our fellow Americans every year to opioid abuse.

There are more honest people and more good people than there are thieves and bad people. It's just always been that way.

Some words were like that. Whole lives attached to them. Ghosts and lives and ecstasy and sorrow.

Everybody has always underrated the Russians. They keep their own secrets alike from foe and friends.