Like snowflakes, the human pattern is never cast twice. We are uncommonly and marvelously intricate in thought and action, our problems are most comp….

Truth is simply whatever you can bring yourself to believe..

It becomes almost second nature to be on guard against the creative pattern of our own thought..

Who wants to live with one foot in hell just for the sake of nostalgia Our time is forever now..

I think women need kindness more than love. When one human being is kind to another, it's a very deep matter..

Some truth has no nourishment in it..

That's how women are, always studyin' each other and wonderin' how they look up 'gainst the next..

I believe racism has killed more people than speed, heroin, or cancer, and will continue to kill until it is no more..

"The good old days." The only good days are ahead..

I'm independent as a hog on ice and a hog on ice is dead, cold, well-preserved and don't need a mother'grabbin, thing..

Like snowflakes, the human pattern is never cast twice..

Writers are encouraged to "keep 'em laughing" and complain "with good humor" in order to "win" allies. The joke is always on ourselves..

We think of poverty as a condition simply meaning a lack of funds, no money, but when one sees fifth, sixth, and seventh generation poor, it is clear….

The twisted circumstances under which we live is grist for the writing mill, the loving, hating and discovering, finding new handles for old pitchers….

It's a poor kind of man that won't fight for his own freedom..

Thoughts can hurt like real pain..

Zis and zat' when uttered by the French is considered charming, but 'dis and dat' as an Africanism is ridiculed as gross and ugly..

your soul is an inner something that is another you and hardly anybody knows what it's really thinkin' except you..

A gift - be it a present, a kind word or a job done with care and love - explains itself!... and if receivin' it embarrasses you, it's because your '….

Everybody's got some sin, but if it troubles your heart you're a gentle sinner, just a good soul gone wrong..

And realizing there is no such thing as the Black experience. Time and events allow for change on both sides..