And it occurred to me how even pulling trees that day, just months ago, I was in heaven. Unaware. I had known nothing even as the evil was occurring, I hadn't been touched yet.

Of course, English is a very powerful language, a colonizer's language and a gift to a writer. English has destroyed and sucked up the languages of other cultures - its cruelty is its vitality.

Women don't realize how much store men set on the regularity of their habits. We absorb their comings and goings into our bodies, their rhythms into our bones.

I stood there in the shadowed doorway thinking with my tears. Yes, tears can be thoughts, why not?

And how funny, strange, that a thing can grow so powerful even when planted in the wrong place. Ideas too, I muttered. Ideas.

If you truly love someone, you should be more interested in keeping them happy than in being right.

People perish. Books are immortal.

The worst kind of tyrant is one that is righteously wrong

Patience is a virtue Savannah, to tolerate delay. It implies self control and forbearance, as opposed to wanting what we want when we want it. Something to think about. . .

Personal revelation, consecration of performance, attention to detail, and dependency on God-with these qualities you cannot fail.

But I've really learned you don't have to fit in. No matter where you go, you're always going to be you and if they don't like you for who you are, then what's the point of being someone else?

I did a lot of drugs. I didn't do multiple drugs, but I overindulged in whatever drug of choice.

They condemn what they do not understand.

Remember that in a hall of perfect darkness, totally dark, if you light one small candle, its light will be seen from afar; its precious light will be seen by everyone.

I focus a lot on my voice because I want it to be an instrument as well. I want my voice to add color.