Try to be a rainbow in someone's cloud. - Maya Angelou

"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."

"To those who are given much, much is expected."

"In all the world, there is no heart for me like yours.In all the world, there is no love for you like mine."

"You alone are enough. You have nothing to prove to anybody."

"What I try to do is write. I may write for two weeks ‘the cat sat on the mat, that is that, not a rat,’.... And it might be just the most boring and awful stuff. But I try. When I’m writing, I write. And then it’s as if the muse is convinced that I’m serious and says, ‘Okay. Okay. I’ll come."