Lord, I never seen blue hair on a black woman before or since. Leroy say you look like a cracker from outer space..

She's wearing a tight red sweater and a red skirt and enough makeup to scare a hooker..

They say it's like true love, good help. you only get one in a lifetime.....there is so much you don't know about a person. i wonder if i could've ma….

What you learn today?" I ask even though she ain't in real school, just the pretend kind. Other day, when I ask her, she say, "Pilgrims. They came ov….

I come home that morning, after I been fired, and stood outside my house with my new work shoes on. The shoes my mama paid a month's worth a light bi….

I started writing it the day after Sept. 11. I was living in New York City. We didnt have any phone service and we didnt have any mail. Like a lot of….

She hug me around my neck, say, "You're righter than Miss Taylor." I tear up then. My cup is spilling over. Those is new words to me..

Stuart needs "space" and "time," as if this were physics and not a human relationship..

I have never been more proud of the United States than I am this year. We have elected an African-American president. We have the stellar Michelle Ob….

...out of the blue, he kissed me. Right in the middle of the Robert E. Lee Hotel Restaurant, he kissed me so slowly with an open mouth and every sing….

But after Mr. Evers got shot a week ago, lot a colored folk is frustrated in this town. Especially the younger ones, who ain't built up a callus yet..

When you little, you only get asked two questions, what’s your name and how old you is, so you better get em right..

You're gon' have to say to your self, am I gon' believe what them fools say about me today?.

I've become one of those people who prowl around at night in their cars. God, I am the town's Boo Radley, just like in To Kill A Mockingbird..

Her nose wrinkle up cause now she got to remember to say she Mae Mobley Three, when her whole life she can remember, she been telling people she Mae ….

Down in the national news section, there's an article on a new pill, the 'Valium' they're calling it, 'to help women cope with everyday challenges.' ….

I have decided not to die..

Rich folk don't try so hard.

I do wish that people talked about the subject of race, especially in the South..

I give in and light another cigarette even though last night the surgeon general came on the television set and shook his finger at everybody, trying….

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..