I am a stranger to half measures. With life I am on the attack, restlessly ferreting out each pleasure, foraging for answers, wringing from it even t….

Ironically, white America will catapult books about race to the top of the best-seller list, even as racism remains a national open wound. Obsession ….

My mother used to do all the things that were important to her after midnight. ... Sometimes I'd sneak downstairs and see her knitting, or reading, o….

I am a stranger to half measures..

I quickly learned that motherhood was a high wire act sometimes performed without a net..

Love is going to replace life and from then on it's all smooth sailing. Love will replace life..

Novelists have to love humanity to write anything worthwhile. Poets have to love themselves..

To my father, who told me the stories that matter. To my mother, who taught me to remember them..

Surviving and believing in tomorrow is just a habit I can't break..

The symbiotic relationship between reading and writing is a cornerstone of our individual intellectual journey and our educational system. We write a….

Imagination bound us stronger than love. Within its limitless borders we launched ships and love affairs, discovered lost worlds, made buildings and ….

We black women must forgive black men for not protecting us against slavery, racism, white men, our confusion, their doubts. And black men must forgi….

It was important, I know, for my father as a product of his times not to be vulnerable, so he chose, and I can't say that I blame him, to live his li….

Racism is a virus. And since nobody's really looking too hard for a cure it reproduces itself over and over again..