my courage always rises with every attempt to intimidate me.

There is no charm equal to tenderness of heart.

My heart is, and always will be, yours.

It isn't what we say or think that defines us, but what we do.

There is nothing I would not do for those who are really my friends. I have no notion of loving people by halves, it is not my nature.

The younger brother must help to pay for the pleasures of the elder.

Our scars make us know that our past was for real

None of us want to be in calm waters all our lives.

What dreadful hot weather we have! It keeps one in a continual state of inelegance.

Seldom, very seldom, does complete truth belong to any human disclosure; seldom can it happen that something is not a little disguised, or a little mistaken.

The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.

David had left her, taking his insane jealousy with him.

Success comes before work only in the dictionary.

I was very unsure about what I wanted to do in high school.

I want to live 50 more years. I'm 33 years old... and I want to live to at least be 80 and see my kids grow up and see my grandkids. That's important to me.

Once upon a time we were all born, popped out like jelly rolls forgetting our fishdom, the pleasuring seas, the country of comfort, spanked into the oxygens of death.

Play is the work of children. It's very serious stuff.

Prudery is often immodestly modest; its habit is to multiply sentinels in proportion as the fortress is less threatened.

The only one who can beat me is me.

The government forces you to give your money to things you don't believe in, to have your money go to projects that might be inherently immoral.

I think many people, especially from other cultures, just don't understand the role hair plays in Black women's lives.