In the early 1970s in Atlanta, I attended what had formerly been an all-white school but had become a black school after integration and white flight….

Women don't have an expiration date..

I respect music, I do. I love it..

They will love me for that which destroys me..

I reached a time in college when I didn't know what I wanted to do. At that time, women's careers were essentially nursing, secretarial and teaching.….

If these United States can be called a body, then Kentucky can be called its heart..

I knew in my gut that there was something wrong with a system that couldn't fire its incompetents, and I had my share of incompetent college teachers..

In America our public schools are intended to be religiously neutral. Our teachers and schools are neither to endorse nor to inhibit religion. I beli….

No writer or teacher or artist can escape the responsibility of influencing others whether he intends to or not, whether he is conscious of it or not..

I'm into women. I've always loved women..

I know what it's like to have a dream. I know what it's like to roll the dice and say, 'I'm going to go after this thing,' and nothing turns my stoma….

I've never been more famous than I was, suddenly, in 1986..

The great majority of men are bundles of beginnings.

Man is a pupil, pain is his teacher..

No one can be Rihanna, except for Rihanna.

Death can be hastened but never shared..

I don't really understand it - marriage..

There are many things that I don't understand..

The man (or woman) who can make hard things easy is the educator..

Women expect us to like them, but they don't even like each other.

None of Us is as Good as All of Us..