....we ain't doing civil rights here. We just telling stories like they really happen.

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

Employment is a vicious cycle

I know but one freedom, and that is the freedom of the mind.

Never say there’s no hope. Hope disappears only when you say there’s no hope.

If diplomacy has any chance to work, it must be coupled with a credible military threat.

My father was in the ad business, and he wanted to be a painter.

Eating meat is not your personal decision, any more than, you know, whether somebody beats their child is their personal decision.

Talking to all those great writers and artists for the magazine was a form of graduate school for me.

Everything an artist spits is art.

The Jewish community has always taken care of its own.

Thus each truth discovered was a rule available in the discovery of subsequent ones.