She is a friend of mind. She gather me, man. The pieces I am, she gather them and give them back to me in all the right order. It's good, you know, when you got a woman who is a friend of your mind.

At some point in life the world's beauty becomes enough. You don't need to photograph, paint or even remember it. It is enough.

Women's rights is not only an abstraction, a cause; it is also a personal affair. It is not only about us; it is also about me and you. Just the two of us.

There is nothing of any consequence in education, in the economy, in city planning, in social policy that does not concern black people.

It's been mentioned or suggested that Paradise will not be well studied, because it's about this unimportant intellectual topic, which is religion.

As you enter positions of trust and power, dream a little before you think.

I like marriage. The idea.

All water has a perfect memory and is forever trying to get back to where it was.

The ability of writers to imagine what is not the self, to familiarize the strange and mystify the familiar, is the test of their power.

You need a whole community to raise a child. I have raised two children, alone.

I get angry about things, then go on and work.