"That's what you want to do? Then nothing beats a trial but a failure. Give it everything you've got. I've told you many times, 'Cant do is like Dont Care.' Neither of them have a home."
"Any book that helps a child to form a habit of reading, to make reading one of his deep and continuing needs, is good for him."
"A woman's heart should be so hidden in God that a man has to seek Him just to find her."
"I speak to the Black experience, but I am always talking about the human condition--about what we can endure, dream, fail at and survive."
"Eating is so intimate. It's very sensual. When you invite someone to sit at your table and you want to cook for them, you're inviting a person into your life."
"A Woman in harmony with her spirit is like a river flowing.She goes where she will without pretense and arrives at her destination prepared to be herself and only herself"