You can hold on to the smallest doubt and take comfort in it, stay in denial and go on with your carefree life, until one day you're finally cornered by a truth that can no longer be ignored.

In the vacuum created by fear and ignorance and hunger and want, it's evil, not good, that rushes to fill the void.

The more completely you can be yourself, the more fully and consciously you participate in the world.

Men... No matter how unappealing, each of them imagines he is somehow worthy.

We are inspired to write by divine force.

There is always a way to be honest without being brutal.

My mom is very Southern and she in real life says things like, 'If you've got it, flaunt it.'

I think I'm a dime, I think I'm amazing, I think I'm blessed and a blessing to whoever gets me next. I think that person has to understand that because that's the way I'm going to treat them as well.

For the innocent, the past may hold a reward. But for the treacherous, it's only a matter of time before the past delivers what they truly deserve.

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My kids and I sometimes will just sit in my office and talk about what the world was like 68 million years ago. Amanda, our oldest daughter, wanted to be a paleontologist for a long time.

Sometimes it seems as if I have spent the first half of my life refusing to let white people define me and the second half refusing to let black people define me.